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places, is covered with a network of tangled and 

 interlacing frogbits. They always seem to me in 

 this way the plant-counterparts of the whirligig 

 beetles ; and it is because of this queer analogy 

 in their mode of life that I have figured the two 

 here in such close connection. 



NO. II. THE BUDS RISING AGAIN IN SPRING, AND SPROUTING 

 INTO A NETWORK. 



Indeed, I hope I have now begun to make it 

 clear to you that the difference of habit between 

 plants and animals is not nearly so vast as most 

 people imagine. It is usual to think of plants as 

 merely passively existing. I have tried, here and 



