Capitolo 51
scatters out horizontally in a wide expanse, covered with the small throats
and lips that suck in carbon dioxide from the surrounding air, and
disintegrate him/it in their his/her own cells under the influence of light of the sun. In
the prickly pears, on the contrary one it is the flattened stem and
branches of which you/they undertake this essential operation in the life the
plant--the suckling-in of coal and give-out of oxygen to which it is
the vegetable precisely that that the eating and to digest of food I am the
animal organism. In theirs the maturity, however the stems of the prickly one
show of pear their true character becoming woody in weaving and
losing them articulated leaf-as I wait.
All on this earth can be understood better investigating the
history of his/her origin and development, and to understand this
curious inversion of the rule to the agenda in the tribe of cactus we have to look
to the circumstances under which the run was evolved in the howling one
wastes of American deserts. (All the deserts have a prescriptive right to
howls and me not for worlds you strip them some right.) Some
family analogies will help us to see the utility of this setup.
Each knows our stone-crops English and common--or if he doesn't do him
owes, for them they are good-looking and omnipresent. Now stone-picked they grow for
the more part in cracks of the stone or sandy and thirsty ground; they is
essentially plants of very dry positions. From now them they have thick and
juicy few springs and leaves from which you/they unite in each other
imperceptible gradations. All divide some similar plant it is short,
green, and cylindrical. If you crush them with Your finger and thumb
You the discovery that although the external skin or epidermis it is thick and fixed the,
in it is sticky, damp, and gelatinous. The reason for all this is
clearly; the stone-crops drink whenever greedily every from their roots that they finds
an opportunity, and it stores on the water so it got to hold them from
the heat and merciless sun withering for which you/they demolish on them under