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FREAKS OF PLANT LIFE. 



than a visit to the museums at Kew Gardens would 

 afford. Instead of a hasty glance at mere curiosities, 

 we would suppose the visitor to foster some such 

 design as to go in search of specialised forms of fruits 

 which would be serviceable in dispersion ; or to trace, 



Fig. 59. — Fruit of Grapnel plant, natural size {Harpagophytum 

 leptocarpum). 



in passing from case to case and from order to order, 

 the recurrence of similar forms in diverse families, so 

 like as to suggest mimicry. With such an object, 

 only to be gratified by such an institution, we 

 would venture to affirm that not only would a visit 

 afford far greater satisfaction, and would excite more 



