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FREAKS OF PLANT LIFE. 



Amazons," between a certain moth and a humming 

 bird. 



The circumstance has also been alluded to many- 

 times that one of our highest botanical authorities 

 of his day figured a species of Veronica, without 



Fig. 67.- -Young plants of (<•;) Saivinia, ib) Jussitm rcpcns, 

 {c) Phyllantlms. 



flowers or fruit, as a conifer. This serves to remind 



us how many plants there are, scattered through 



various families, in which the form and arrangement 



of the foliage is so much like that of a cypress, that 



