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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
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s the fungi, have cultivated mostcompletely the habit of dependence onother organisms. They attack both plantsand animals, and are often exceedinglydestructive. Among the better known ofthese parasites are the rusts, which at-tack and destroy many of our most usefulcrops. To the fungi there also belong thewell-known bacteria, which are the causeof numerous contagious diseases bothamong plants and animals. It will be ob-served that these parasites are using ex-actly the same sort of food as do the car-nivorous plants. This does not appearso striking in this case, simply becausethe attacking plants are so much smallerthan the organisms attacked that they donot seem to capture them, although theyare often none the less effective in de-stroying them. John Merle Coulter. MAPLE LEAVES. October turned my maples leaves to gold ; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers;Soon these will slip from out the twigs weak hold. Like coins between a dying misers fingers. Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
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FROM KffiMtEHS MEDICINAL-PFLANZEN. b76 MANDRAKE. 235 MAY-APPLE. (Podophyllum peltattan L.) The blushing peach and glossy plum there lies,And with the ynandrake tempt your hands and eyes. —Quoted in Tuckermajis America, p. jj. The may-apple is a small perennial herbwith long root-stocks or undergroundstems (rhizomes), a native of the UnitedStates and Canada, growing in rathermoist woodlands. The rhizomes attaina length of about twelve feet; they aresparingly branched with comparativelyfew roots at the nodes. Upon closer in-spection one may notice the leaf scars andstem scars. Early in the spring the budsituated at the anterior end of the root-stock or rhizome, develops and sends upa stem upon which the leaves and flowerare situated. The entire plant attains aheight of about twelve inches. The leavesare large, peltate (from pelta, a smallshield), margin deeply from five to ninelobed, lobes pendant thus giving the leafa semblance to an umbrella. It is re-markable that the flowerless pl

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