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PECULIARITIES OF PLANT LIFE 
Most of the plants which we see and which live where 
there are no great extremes of heat or cold and where it is 
neither wet nor dry are called mesophytes (mez'o-fites: 
Greek, mesos , middle; phyton, plant). They have few 
Figure 345. — Orchid. 
This plant lives in bogs. A habitat intermediate between that shown in 
Figures 340. 341, and 362. 
characteristics in common, but all have roots suited to the 
soil in which they gTow, and leaves which in shape and 
arrangement serve the purposes of each plant better than 
any others would do. Examples of this are the narrow, 
