A VERY INTELLIGENT PLANT 283 



is here no doubt unconscious and inherited, I 

 think we are justified in applying the same word in 

 both cases to operations whose effects are so closely 

 similar. Gorse, in short, may fairly be called a 

 clever and successful plant, just as the bee may be 

 called a clever and successful insect, because it 

 works out its own way through life with such 

 conspicuous wisdom. 



