PLANTS THAT WALK 5 



the little shoot. If the particular sunny or light 

 spot toward which the tulip is walking should unex- 

 pectedly be shaded, it will immediately begin to 

 move in another direction. 



Club-mosses are noted travellers. And the com- 

 mon club-moss has acquired for itself many names 

 as well as possessing many lands. It flourishes 

 from the arctic to the tropical regions of both hemi- 

 spheres ; thriving equally well under all conditions. 

 It is used extensively for Christmas decorations, 

 and, were it not for its manner of rooting and 

 walking, it would run a risk of becoming extinct; 

 but the smallest bit of the plant will immediately 

 take root and begin to spread out. 



Some plants have an entirely different way of 

 walking; in fact, hopping or jumping would best 

 describe it, as there is no real connection between 

 the mother plant and the new little ones. A good 

 example is the life-plant, of Bermuda, a tall, 

 sturdy, weed-like plant with its fatty large leaves 

 deeply scalloped. It drops one of these leaves on 

 to the ground; and a few days later four or five, 

 sometimes as many as ten, new plants are grow- 

 ing beside the mother: one plant has sprung from 

 every scallop, thus forming themselves over the 

 earth in the exact shape of the leaf, like happy 

 children in preparing to play certain games. 



