Capitolo 52
times in the cooked fissures to the oven of their matrix of granite. It is the makeup of camel
on new. Then he/she leaves and stem often grows and round and juicy among;
but out they is included in a strong layer of epidermis that
it consists of cells similar to glass and empty, and what you/he/she can be skinned him street or you/he/she can have skinned him
with a knife as the skin of an animal. This external layer prevents
evaporation, and it is a characteristic marked of all the juicy plants that grow
shown to the sun on arid stones or in sandy deserts.
The tendency to produce round stems and leaves little,
distinguishable from each other, it is equally well visible in her a lot of beach
plants of which you/they frequent the strip of thirsty sand over the course the
tides. That belt of dry beach that extends among mark of tall-water
and the zone of vegetable soil, is to all the intentions and purpose a
desert of miniature. True, you/he/she is sprinkled at times by rain; but
the drops sink in so fast that in half a hour, as we know, the whole one
strip is dry again as Sahara. There is now many they sustained it polishes up from the weeds of this
intermediary sand-belt that mimic to an amazing degree the head
external characteristics of the cactuses. Such a weed, the ground of common ownership
sampan that grows in sandy funds or it digs of the beach, has a
joined stem, branched and juicy, after the true model of cactus,
and completely without leaves or their equivalentses in some way. Even more
cactus-as in general effect another weed of beach English and family it is,
the kali or glasswort, so he/she called because you/he/she had previously burnt
extracts the firm carbonate. The glasswort has leaves, it is true, but they is
often and fleshy, continuous with the stem and every one whom it finishes in
an acute, needle-as backbone against which indeed it protects the weed
everybody that you/they browse aggressors.
You find wherever now, very dry and sandy conditions of ground, you get
this same type of cactus-as vegetation--the grasses_ of _plantes as the