CHAPTER XI 



MOVEMENT 



MOVEMENT OF PLANTS— AxMOEBOID MOVEMENT- 

 MOVEMENT OF ANIMALS— FLIGHT 



This is the law of the beast, and of the fowl, and of every 

 living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature 

 that creepeth upon the earth. Leviticus xi. AG. 



Movement of Plants 



Animals, ^vith the exception of the few that are fixed, 

 sessile, such as coral-polyps, oj^sters, etc., can and do move 



Fig. 35. Horizontal underground stem or rhizome of Ptcn's. G, the frrowing 

 point; Li, a developing leaf; Lo, the leaf of the current year; L3, a decayed 

 leaf of the previous year. The rhizome hears roots; from Lj a young rhizome 

 B is growing. (Darwin's Elements of Botany.) 



from place to place; plants, as a rule, cannot. The niDrc 

 primitive unicellular plants livinfr in water are of C(Mirsc 

 moved about by the streams and currents, but this is no 



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