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THE DOGGIE TUBER. 



A Marine Animal Mimic This, again, is a very 

 peculiar form of tuber. It appears to be furnished with 

 fins like those of a seal, to have a kind of rostrum or beak, 

 and a pair of feelers or horns on its head. It is sugges- 

 tive of some denizen of the ocean. Really, it is an in- 



MARINE ANIMAL MIMIC. 



stance of a tuber anxious to strike out a new line for 

 itself by forming a modified form of stem, furnished with 

 leaf scales the projecting parts and buds in their axils. 

 Had this tuber remained in the soil it would, no doubt, 

 have borne tubers like an ordinary potato stem. 



