72 ARCTIC PLANTS. 
CHAPTER Vif, 
ARCTIC PLANTS—VARIETIES OF CLIMATE AND EFFECT UPON 
VEGETATION—RHODODENDRONS—TEA—MODE OF PREPARA-~ 
TION — BARREN PINE — PITCHER PLANT — SPIKENARD — 
SAFFRON — CROCUSSES — MOTION IN PLANTS — SENSITIVE 
PLANT — VENUS FLY-TRAP— ROOTS OF PLANTS. 
SETI T is very interesting and instructive 
Ha < to examine into the character of the 
different plants which are adapted to 
* various sections of the globe. 
While there is but little doubt 
that Nature no where displays her 
= caudy colorings in greater profusion, or to 
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P Ka 4 better advantage than in the wilds of South 
ar Dieitica, yet Nes are many other lands 
cP?‘ where the productions of the vegetable king- 
dom are no less useful and attractive. Even the ice- 
bound regions of the Arcti¢ Circle can boast of their 
ereen mossy banks and smiling flowers, which are 
certainly none the less remarkable for the fact that, 
owing to the shortness of the summer season, the 
process of vegetation is so rapid, that in some species 
the whole time required to reach maturity is little 
more than a month. 
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