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than a really learned man, and most of all Edward Smith, 

 allotted to plants exquisite sensibility, and even sensations 

 of pretty high character. 



These views have in our day been ardently upheld 



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251. The Mandrake — Atropa Mandragova (Linuseus). 



by two of the most celebrated savants of studious Ger- 

 many — Yon Martins and Theodore Feclmer — who consider 

 a plant a sentient being endowed with an individual soul, 

 the latter having carried his temerity so far as to found a 

 sort of vegetable psychology. 



Camille Debans, in his charming little work, makes 



which is not sole nor fixed in any part, but equally spread through all, and di- 

 visible, since every one of its integrant parts which participate in a common life 

 possesses in itself an isolated vitality, and because, when separated and detached 

 from them, it grows and fructifies, finally enjoying all the properties and faculties 

 which it possessed before its separation." 



