MIGRATIONS OF PLANTS 
short years, that single plant had multiplied so 
prodigiously as to seriously impede navigation, 
lumbering and fishing. 
Jack London tells of a similiar thing that 
happened in Hawaii: “In the United States, 
in greenhouses and old-fashioned gardens, 
grows a potted flowering shrub called Lantana; 
in India dwells a very noisy and quarrelsome 
bird known as the Myna. Both were intro- 
duced into Hawaii—the bird to feed upon the 
cut-worm of a certain moth; the flower to glad- 
den with old associations the heart of a flower- 
loving missionary. But the land loved the 
Lantana. From a small flower that grew ina 
pot, the Lantana took to itself feet and walked 
out of the pot into the missionary’s garden. 
Here it flourished and increased mightily in 
size and constitution. From over the garden 
wall came the love call of all Hawaii, and the 
Lantana responded to the call, climbed over 
the wall, and went a-roving and a-loving in the 
wild woods. 
“And just as the Lantana had taken to itself 
feet, by the seduction of its seed it added to 
itself the wings of the Myna, which distribu- 
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