Capitolo 50
flowers that branch (what flower, not once in one century as legend
it affirms, but once in of the fifteen years or so) on all the to bask himself/herself/themselves
slant of the atlas of Mauritanian. But for the origin, and therefore
for the evolutionary history, of both plant we have to look away from
the beach of the hinterland sea to the arid expanse of the Mexican desert.
It was there, among the suffocating stones of the Tierras Calientes that
these deprived cactuses of first grace learned to dress himself/herself/themselves in prickly
imposed, to store in their loose fabrics an abundant provisioning of sticky
damp, and to put to challenge the persistent one attaches of entirely external
hostile. The prickly pear, in fact, is an example typical of a desert
weepings, as the camel is an example typical of an animal of desert. Each places
it out to almost bear the long droughts of his habitat of rainless
drinking as much as him is able when opportunity offers, the accumulation on the
superfluous water for future use and evaporation of economising from each
he/she wants to tell his/her power.
If you ask to that convenient fiction, the man in the Road that kind of
cries a cactus it is, he will probably tell him it is every leaf and no
springs, and each of the leaves grows out of the last. Every whenever we put
on the man in the Road, however you have had to notice we do us him in
orders to beat down again it as a nine-pin the next moment: and this
the particular example is not exception to the rule; for the truth that is
a cactus is practically everything stem and any leaves what seems a leaf,
being a branch that really hammers out him to an angle. The true leaves, if
there is some, backbone is reduced to mere or thorns on the surface,
while the branches, in the prickly-pear and very of the ornamental one
cactus of warm-house as a leaf, is flattened out for completing foliar
functions. In other words, the leaves are the mouths in more plants,
and stomachs of the organism; them thin and it flattened blades I am