Capitolo 57
plants have escaped under shortly, the very arid or sandy conditions
precisely in proportion as them they visualized this tendency toward the
production of thorns, backbone, bristles and thorns.
It is a characteristic marked of the tribe of cactus to be a lot of tenacities
of the life, and when it cut asunder, to jump afresh in the full vigour
from every discard or fragment. True vegetable hydras, when you cut
one, ten spring in his/her place: every bit separate of the often and
juicy stem has the power to grow again in a separate cactus.
Surprising as this particularity seems sight for before, it is only a
change of special desert of a faculty possessed in a less degree from
almost all plants and from many animals. If you stopped the end of a rose
branch and if it hammers him/it in the earth under the appropriate conditions, it grows
in a tree of rose. If you take cuts of geraniums scarlet or terrestrial of common ownership
verbenas, and it puts them in vase in damp ground, they buds out quickly in new
plants like their parents. The certain special types can also be propagated
from fragments of the leaf; there is for example, a particularly
begonia vivacious street which you can bite an angle of a blade, and
hang above him from a sequence from a peg or the ceiling, when, hi, soon!
the small plants of begonia start to bud out incontinently on every side from
his/her edges. A certain German teacher also went further that that; him
minced a very excellent liverwort in meat minced vegetable that him
then scatters thin on a saucerful of sand-blasts damp, and here! in some days
the whole surface of the confusion was covered with a perfect forest of
small liverworts that bud. Roughly speaking, one can say that each
fragments of every organism it has in him the power to reconstruct in his
entirety another organism as that of what it formed once a
component's element.
Likewise with animals. You cut the tail of a lizard and straightway a new
tail grows in its place with amazing promptitude. You cut a
the claw of lobster, and in a very little weeks around that lobster is walking