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REST  IN  PLANT  LIFE. 
IT  is  an  indispensable  part  of  tlie  great  plan  that 
all  life  should  have  rest.  This  is  an  axiom 
generally  accepted ;  and  that  all  life  obtains  it 
under  some  or  other  of  its  varied  forms  may  also  be 
admitted,  as  well  as  that  the  more  perfect  the  rest 
the  more  conducive  it  is  to  the  well-being  of  the 
subject.  In  the  vegetable  kingdom,  difficult 
though  it  may  be  in  some  piarticular  instances  and 
under  certain  conditions  to  recognise  this  great 
natural  law  asserting  its  rights,  the  fact  remains 
that  Nature’s  great  restorer  is  not,  cannot  be  denied 
to  any  of  her  subjects  for  an  unduly  protracted 
period  Avitliout  detriment  to  health,  if  the  depriva¬ 
tion  is  not  indeed  sufficiently  de-vitalising  to  result 
in  death. 
Possibly  there  is  a  greater  affiriity  between  animal 
and  vegetable  life  in  these  respects  than  our  present 
somewhat  superficial  knowledge  of  the  subject  has 
recorded.  The  illustrious  Swede,  Liunseus,  in  his 
exhaustive  studies  relative  to  other  phases  of  vege¬ 
table  physiology,  touches  upon  this  one,  which  lie 
terms  “  The  Sleep  of  Plants,”  and  thus  paves  the 
way  for  higher  researches  into  what  is  compara¬ 
tively  a  mystery  of  the  vegetable  kingdom.  1  uder 
normal  conditions  of  atmospheric  influence  much, 
of  course,  may  be  noted  of  what  is  commonly  occur¬ 
ring,  either  in  the  closing  of  blossoms  as  night 
approaches,  or  the  folding  up  of  composite  leaves 
with  the  prostration  of  others  ;  and  in  the  excep¬ 
tions  to  this  night  sleep  we  may  see  a  close 
resemblance  to  the  animal  kingdom  in  those  sub¬ 
jects  of  it  whose  habits  are  nocturnal.  ere 
anything  wanting  to  establish  the  similarity  which 
undoubtedly  exists  in  many  ways  between  the 
animal  and  vegetable  kingdoms,  it  is  found  in 
sexual  relationship,  and  the  bar  which  Nature  has 
put  equally  upon  both  against  the  reproduction  of 
monstrosities  in  the  way  of  mules;  and  ivhere  we 
find  so  much  in  common  it  is  but  reasonable  to 
suppose  that  in  direct  relation  to  our  subject  the 
divergence  is  not  great,  although  the  methods  may 
he  obscure. 
Having  touched  upon  a  somewhat  abstruse 
question,  which  to  say  the  least  is  an  interesting 
one,  we  may  turn  to  that  portion  of  it  which  is  of 
immediate  concern,  especially  at  this  particidar 
No.  2666.— VOL.  XOVII.,  OLD  SERIES. 
No.  910.— Yol,  XXXV.,  Third  Series. 
