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places, is covered with a network of tanj^led and 

 interlacinjf froj^liits, Tliey always seem to me in 

 this way the plant-counterparts of the whirlij^ij^ 

 beetles ; and it is because of this tjueer analoj^y 

 in their mode of life that I have figured the two 

 here in such close connection. 



KO. II. — TIIK IJUDS RISINT, AGAIN IN SPRING, AND SI'ROUTING 



IN I'O A NKIWORK. 



Indeed, I hope I have now be<fun to make it 

 clear to you tliat 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, iiere and 



