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Remarkable Properties In Certain PlantsPlants, when forced from their natural position, are endowed with a power to restore themselves. A hop-plant, twisting round a stick, directs its course from south to west, as the sun does. Untwist it, and tie it in the opposite direction, it dies. Leave it loose in the wrong direction, it recovers its natural direction in a single night. Twist a branch of a tree so as to invert its leaves, and fix it in that position; if left in any degree loose, it untwists itself gradually, till the leaves be restored to their natural position. What better can an animal do for its welfare? A root of a tree meeting with a ditch in its progress, is laid open to the air; what follows? It alters its course like a rational being, dips into the ground, surrounds the ditch, rises on the opposite side of its wonted distance from the surface, and then proceeds in its original direction. Lay a wet sponge near a root exposed to the air; the root will direct its course to the sponge; change the place of the sponge, the root varies its direction. Thrust a pole into the ground at a moderate distance from a climbing plant; the plant directs its course to the pole, lays hold of it, and rises on its natural height. A honeysuckle proceeds in its course, till it be too long for supporting its weight, and then strengthens itself by shooting into a spiral. If it meet with another plant of the same kind, they coalesce for mutual support; the one screwing to the right, the other to the left. If a honeysuckle twig meet with a dead branch, it screws from the right to the left. The claspers of briony shoot into the spiral, and lay hold of whatever comes in their way, for support. If, after completing a spiral of three rounds, they meet with nothing, they try again, by altering their course. Next: Flowers Curiously Affected By The Sun And The Weather Previous: Subaqueous Exhalation
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