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Show flower of the Arotle Regions. The polar flowers seldom have any per. fii'iie. aA the lew that exhibit thla de-lichu'nl de-lichu'nl quality, however feeble, Rre, I think, from tlmt class that have crept over the coll bonier miirked hv the Arctlo cii'fle; or, in short, none of iLe ilfty men ti-i'eU -Kfkimo (lowers, we might cjlII thfn in a popular way have any npx'e-ciiihi npx'e-ciiihi vulor, 'I lie color of these boreal Mi-.m.ii,s -ire generally of tho cold tlnti, tit if in harmony with tho chilly sur-ronniliiis, sur-ronniliiis, tiKtt-:i'l of (he warm hues that would break in i jkii the ilesolatlon with loul'le ell'efl by f beer com rast where so few elieeiini,' i-it-lits ere to be seen. White ami light yellow predominate, and these colors seem asocial eit wit h irosts nuii ci.ltl weal her, for it appears that these tlowers we call everlastings," ami which re 1 he lone-t to defy the nipping of the coming winier weal her, are mostly tinted like the northern snows and yellow northern lights. it is in the depth of old ocean that we tli id some of ihe largest expressions of plant hie in the polar .one. Here, within a short dii-taneo of shore, are colossal kelps and other life that yrow throughout the year; of course, vegetatintj tho most iu t lie short summer mont lis. Iaud plants, as already said, are pigmies compared com-pared with thue of the sea, or even tho corresponding elas in lower latitudes, and this dwarfed condition, a naturalist telN us, is not due so nint h to the intense eold in the arctic winter its to the fuel they do not tret enough warmth in summer sum-mer to develop them perfectly. Dr. Joseph Hooker mentions it as a rare property of one of the gnimiuem (the grasses), Triso-Itim Triso-Itim Subpieal urn, that it. is ihe only polar species known which is equally an inhabitant, inhab-itant, of the arctic and antarctic regions. Frederick Schwat ka in Woman. |