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G. F. Scott Elliot. The Romance of Plant Life
The Romance of Plant Life
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE ACTIVITY OF VEGETABLES
CHAPTER II. ON SAVAGES, DOCTORS, AND PLANTS
CHAPTER III. A TREE'S PERILOUS LIFE
CHAPTER IV. ON FORESTS
CHAPTER V. FLOWERS
CHAPTER VI. ON UNDERGROUND LIFE
CHAPTER VII. HIGH MOUNTAINS, ARCTIC SNOWS
CHAPTER VIII. SCRUB
CHAPTER IX. ON TEA, COFFEE, CHOCOLATE, AND TOBACCO
CHAPTER X. ON DESERTS
CHAPTER XI. THE STORY OF THE FIELDS
CHAPTER XII. ON PLANTS WHICH ADD TO CONTINENTS
CHAPTER XIII. ROCKS, STONES, AND SCENERY
CHAPTER XIV. ON VEGETABLE DEMONS
CHAPTER XV. ON NETTLES, SENSITIVE PLANTS, ETC
CHAPTER XVI. ON FLOWERS OF THE WATER
CHAPTER XVII. ON GRASSLANDS
CHAPTER XVIII. POISONS
CHAPTER XIX. ON FRUITS
CHAPTER XX. WANDERING FRUITS AND SEEDS
CHAPTER XXI. STORY OF THE CROPS
CHAPTER XXII. PLANTS AND ANTS
CHAPTER XXIII. THE PERIL OF INSECTS
CHAPTER XXIV. RUBBER, HEMP, AND OPIUM
CHAPTER XXV. ON CLIMBING PLANTS
CHAPTER XXVI. PLANTS WHICH PREY ON PLANTS
CHAPTER XXVII. PLANTS ATTACKING ANIMALS
CHAPTER XXVIII. MOSSES AND MOORS
CHAPTER XXIX. NAMES AND SUPERSTITIONS
INDEX
Footnote
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G. F. Scott Elliot
Interesting Descriptions of the Strange and Curious in the Plant World
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At present, and for centuries past, the whole world is searched and explored for drugs and spices. Our medicinal rhubarb for instance, grows in China on the frontiers of Tibet; it is carried over the mountains of China to Kiaghta in Siberia, and from thence taken right across Russian Siberia to London and New York. It is closely allied to the common or garden rhubarb, which grows wild on the banks of the Volga.
It is only our duty to remember with gratitude all those long since departed botanists who have made our life so full of luxury and have supplied our doctors with all kinds of medicines.
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