What are Afiwials and Plants ? -ii^Ty 



It so are the activities of some of the lowest organisms 

 v^ays recognised as plants — many of the Algse, especially in 

 their younger stages and reproductive parts, together with 

 such curious plants of prey as Venus's fly-trap and its allies 



I ^lately referred to. 

 ' We do not, indeed, yet positively advocate, though we 

 gard with favour, such a mode of dividing the two com- 

 ponent groups which together constitute animated nature ; 

 but we confess that we see no possible manner in which 

 these two predominently diverse groups of organisms can be 

 divided, if the whole mass of living creatures which we have 

 seen to be so sharply and distinctly separated off from the 

 non-living world are to be completely, sharply, and distinctly 

 separated, one from the other. 



Thus, we venture to think, may at present best be 

 answered the two questions with which we set out: (1) What 

 animals and plants are, as contrasted with substances which 

 are neither the one nor the other ; and (2) How animals and 

 plants stand towards each other ; the answers to which con- 

 stitute the only reply we know of to the fundamental ques- 

 tion we have taken as the title of this paper : ' What are 

 Animals and Plants ? ' 



