THE HUMAN SIDE OF 

 PLANTS 



PLANTS THAT WALK 



In Malabar, or Deccan, spreads her arms, 

 Branching so broad and long, that in the ground 

 The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow 

 About the mother-tree, a pillared shade, 

 High over-arched, and echoing walks between. 



MILTON, on the Indian Fig (Paradise Lost). 



THERE are in plants many different kinds of 

 movement, besides the folding together of 

 the leaflets, the drooping of the stems, the opening 

 of the flowers, the shooting forth of certain seeds, 

 the propelling motion of airship varieties, and the 

 regular climbing habits of other species. Plants 

 migrate as do birds or animals : that is, they travel 

 and establish themselves without the aid of man in 

 other territory than their former homes. 



The wind is the most common agent in the scat- 

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