398 CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION 



them and only in decayed flesh can they find enough 

 nourishment. Drivers of caravans curse the Devil plant 



FIG. 48. Seedpod of the Persian devil plant, with its claws four inches acrost 



for it may cost them many of their beasts when these are 

 turned loose to graze at night. But most of the semi-wild 

 beasts that graze in the country have learned to avoid it, 



