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THE UNIVERSE. 



M. Cli. Musset has discovered that a plant of the same 

 family as has been mentioned, the Edible Arum, launches 



230. Transpiration in tlie Sun-flower. Hales' experiment. 



little drops of water in the form of a jet into the air, and 

 that these exhale from the pores which we see on the tips 

 of its magnificent arrow-headed leaves, undulated like the 



