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vigorously throughout the season. They are 
large and flat, well adapted to getting the most 
benefit from the light that reaches the shady sur- 
face on which they live; and they are continually 
DUTCHMAN'S BREECHES 
storing up, in the large, fleshy rootstocks below, 
material for future growth. It is on account of 
this preparation that the plant is able to push up 
its blossoms so quickly in the spring. 
The origin of the common as well as of the 
