Rambles in Search of Flowerless Plants
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Are formed. Lichens are either crustaceans or frondose. Their fruit is of two kinds, the more perfect form being deposited in concave or convex shields, and lines ; the less perfect in powdery warts. These sturdy plants seem strangely independent of the substance on which they grow. Some flourish on the hardest rocks, others prosper on healthy trees : they will bear all vicissitudes of weather ; for though they seem to dry up and die in the hot sunshine, yet the first rainy day enables them to ...expand again, and resume the business of their life. They have a wonderful power of retaining moisture, and also of collecting it ; for if there is any damp in its neighbourhood, the lichen seems to attract it to itself. In dying they deposit a subtle acid, which wears away the rock on which they grew, and thus forms earth fit to nourish minute plants of higher organization. It was this capacity in the lichen to which the poet alludes, when describing the gradual rise and vegetation of a coral island " But soon the lichen fixeth there, and dying, diggeth its own grave, And softening SUDS and splitting frosts crumble the reluctant surface.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Are formed. Lichens are either crustaceans or frondose. Their fruit is of two kinds, the more perfect form being deposited in concave or convex shields, and lines ; the less perfect in powdery warts. These sturdy plants seem strangely independent of the substance on which they grow. Some flourish on the hardest rocks, others prosper on healthy trees : they will bear all vicissitudes of weather ; for though they seem to dry up and die in the hot sunshine, yet the first rainy day enables them to ...expand again, and resume the business of their life. They have a wonderful power of retaining moisture, and also of collecting it ; for if there is any damp in its neighbourhood, the lichen seems to attract it to itself. In dying they deposit a subtle acid, which wears away the rock on which they grew, and thus forms earth fit to nourish minute plants of higher organization. It was this capacity in the lichen to which the poet alludes, when describing the gradual rise and vegetation of a coral island " But soon the lichen fixeth there, and dying, diggeth its own grave, And softening SUDS and splitting frosts crumble the reluctant surface.
What to read after Rambles in Search of Flowerless Plants?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Margaret Plues to read onlineMoreLess
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