PLANTS THAT WALK 5 
the little shoot. If the particular sunny or light 
spot toward which the tulip is walking should unex- 
pectedly be shaded, it will immediately begin to 
move in another direction. 
Club-mosses are noted travellers. And the com- 
mon club-moss has acquired for itself many names 
as well as possessing many lands. It flourishes 
from the arctic to the tropical regions of both hemi- 
spheres; thriving equally well under all conditions. 
It is used extensively for Christmas decorations, 
and, were it not for its manner of rooting and 
walking, it would run a risk of becoming extinct; 
but the smallest bit of the plant will immediately 
take root and begin to spread out. 
Some plants have an entirely different way of 
walking; in fact, hopping or jumping would best 
describe it, as there is no real connection between 
the mother plant and the new little ones. A good 
example is the life-plant, of Bermuda, a tall, 
sturdy, weed-like plant with its fatty large leaves 
deeply scalloped. It drops one of these leaves on 
to the ground; and a few days later four or five, 
sometimes as many as ten, new plants are grow- 
ing beside the mother: one plant has sprung from 
every scallop, thus forming themselves over the 
earth in the exact shape of the leaf, like happy 
children in preparing to play certain games. 
