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tiny raft and, by means of this raft, he is enabled to float 

 around until some kind of wind or wave brings him in 

 contact with his love. Some of the pollen from the male 

 adheres to the female flower; she drops to the bottom of 

 the water, and there remains while the seeds are being 

 developed." 



"Plants, as this student of them affirms, after his care- 

 ful investigation of the evidence, possess a psychic sense. 

 There are numerous evidences of it in the plant's power 

 to discover the presence of objects necessary to its wel- 

 fare. A climbing plant, which needs a prop, will creep 

 toward the nearest support. Should this be shifted to a 

 spot several feet from its former position the vine will, 

 within a few hours, change its course to the new direc- 

 tion. Is it possible that the plant sees the pole? Such a 

 theory may explain the action in this instance, but if the 

 plant grows between two mounds or ridges and behind 

 the ridge stands a wall which will afford good climbing 

 but is invisible from the position of the plant, while be- 

 hind the other ridge is no form of support, the plant in- 

 variably will bend its course over the ridge which is 

 before the wall. Examples of this may be found wherever 

 climbing or creeping plants grow. The support is invis- 

 ible from the plant's starting point. There is no odor 

 which, as is possible in the location of water, might give 

 the plant some clue to the direction in which its support 

 may be found. The only explanation seems to be the 

 existence in the plant of a psychic sense." 



"There is at least one other sense which is possessed by 

 plants in a marked degree. This may be called the physi- 

 cal sense. For example, most house plants which in their 

 domestication have assumed more or less artificial forms, 

 will, on being returned to their original haunts, reasiume 

 their original or natural forms. There must be in the 



