Show I PUBLIC ROM OM PLANT EXHIBITION y y Thousand Specimens ded to National Collection Col Col- lection Annually I ERIA TERIA ARE LOWEST FORMS OF PLANT LIFE LIFEr r re re Has Many Strange vices rices for Protection of Vegetation FREDERIO i J. J of plants of the nation ticum the officially known as the na um differs from froni aU all of ofer other er divisions of the institution a ino so part of its collection is isa a o oik in exhibition It is estimated tb TO Te je ar are approximately a. a million ns os m in the collection an and it i is iso iso o 0 be growing growing- more mOle r rapidly pi ly lyD in D o oth c collection in 1 ear car about u nS are re added to it this Ibis one ono di i ion doling dealing with D floral kingdom while Kingdom kp dom i is divided among among tev- tev I lena ns it i is is natural that a a. a large 11 DC f work must bo be done ono in coun cou con n pith l tb the ji di divisions division's s 1 of Bi ant at world results Inc O of or these f Ire are d in a series of voided vol voi ded od lod to the Na Na- This publication tu ajel eel years 3 ago 0 an and ancl baa has r ugh Sl sixteen tepu volumes r Estimated of af species of plants in fc l. l i ill is l estimated Some SomeS Ic S 5 av ay Hi re are as s manyI many if I f. f plant I a u there are of af ani- ani Tir place the number a i nillion Other esti rl is lace e t h number of species as r of a million These ver are ore based upon the described and not upon p i o 0 finding new ones wed nud not go to remote find nd new species of a M ir passes without u of JC Within i thiu tc tel 11 f brn bm m oi of J lh the tho u national tJ al k r of preparing tho coTh colte- colte Ue th herbarium cou if ff first iut p the plant pressing rr the various portions or ot of I. I them largo large cards m of l h are about sixteen inches A little cn- cn 5 5 pasted to each ach card into of the seeds II und and ad parts part are arc placed The Ther r a i part part- of the plant i ached hed tu to the by bv small mall Tb e tape tapo A number of L arda 3rd are and Ill Ill-a ludi or stiff paper aft after r hey are fild away in heavy es Thore are uro upward of pi pigeon eon holes holts in theof tho the of j I eases case O i r TO d in alco o but ij are lire few at Lot t Recent Addition tb the important addi addi- If i 0 I the national herbarium was wasp p Dr J Jf J. J 0 0 f He Ho headed an au exploring ext ex- ex t n 0 along the Mexican frontier 1 Fathered there more mor than valuable tIt fn He lie i is just now ow in I r orth Arnern Amerian an cacti the tho results s 1 h tudy art are expected to conTa cona con con- Ta a mo most t t important contribution 1 t meal t rk of the tho national herbarium great treat importance This t sort ort of ofis I is JaY fundamental to such fluch appl applied td I 6 e is Os 8 that o of using botanical rations in io n medicine and that of Die mie ic botan botany h hit eti- eti that the tb a ati of such b eco eco- tn 8 as Burbank md Mud those department of lI agriculture are hundred million dollars a year ear in people Yet the tho suu su su- u. u u jue c they thov have llao reared pen the foundation prepared li h by kers who ar are r res responsible for isAl herbarium b e I of tb the botanist Continued on page pago 4 T BAR PUBLIC PUBLIC FROM FROM PLANT EXHIBITION Continued pa page e 1 many marir wonderful stories nave have been uncovered un tin- eov covered red and be he fins finds day truths t t hat J the hi highest hest fH flights of ot fancy faney For Por instance it has hu bc been n found that there are more than different species of fun il some Mine of or which possess strange qualities The cedar rut cedar rut cannot flourish unless it j w wable able to ps patt of it its ib time on the red cedar and the tho other part on the theba ba hawthorne There lire aro re also p of diatoms minute plant in inhabitants habitants of the waters of the world and these theio sene a as as' as food for tens of thousands of df specks species of marine life Some of life arc arc found which arc are areso so lio simple that ven the mot most pains taking scientist is unable to siy sy conclusively con coo elusively whether th they are animals or plants Other Other- specie jare are BO so highly developed de n ored that thc they set traps for insects and make parachute to earn carry their thlire e seed d to remote 11 places c 5 Bacteria BacteriaL Lowest T r Form rm m mr of r Plant Life The ho fla and mf slime lime molds are arc nothing but jut pla m without shape or form Contrast them with the bea beati- beati beautiful ti ful fitl orf orchid the splendid apple tree and the giant lant oak oal and you and you havo range Tange of form that unaided fan fancy y could not picture The forms of lif life Known certainly to JA plants are the bacteria and some of of them multiply so Sc o fast t that a sin single Ie I.e. one ODe ma may turn into many million millions in In tw twenty twenty four four hours they m by breaking apart and this process prote ak takes place every half hour course their life spa span is of f only momentary duration comparatively ti vely speaking akin in In striking contrast to some of trees trec whose holle years Pars are arc reckoned by bv by centuries The botanist has followed the plant creation ba back k to it it Beginnings and jA jAen ia is en engaged a in in the great work of constructing constructing construct construct- ing the family tr- tr of the worlds world's II for flora A A difficulty him im in in makh making a 8 complete family tree I 11 is the fart fad that many sp spI p Aee ell I hf Mj o vanished from the world an nn if left no trace behind be be- hind thorn them In of framing up the o the plant king kiu- loin doin bo ho finds th that t t t. t whole plant ere rc aHon once e lived lit ip ii the water When plants ts l left t these thes surroundings 8 they bad had entirely now new conditions ns to met meet end and yet ct tbt they adapted t to their environment as 11 I completely e as all the and e pur lane has baa ada adapted td itself to t. t the te e ordinary truck garden Even tod taa Jr the botanist is isable isable is isable able to witness fo for himself instances res of plants leaving t w water t r anti and taking on a II land existence Several specie of liverwort 11 normally float on the water bu but when l left fl h b and nd dry tn ln some muddy plate place v take root and straightway dl differing widely from their water form torm It i II believed that th the tho algae er Yer ery small plants plant inhabiting the water more moro than other species represent tho ancestor ancestors of th tb teea i a land plants of the tho world orld Natures Nature's Insect Catcher r The plAnts carnivorouS possess some lome most moat striking for lor catching imprisoning and uDd feeding upon live Jive am- am animal ani- ani mal mal main maln Among n OD these plants are re the sar- sar i of the Atlantic states and the thed d darlingtonia of of- the Sierra I Th They little filled with I nee n ciar r. r whose whoM aule ide nt it tl with I hairs hair pointing inward IH woo 00 betide lo bo ho insert which U la attracted hv h this thu When it eck cb to get out tl haiTs fi o c s sare are are jailers which stand tand nt to prevent c M pe The i leaves 0 of the sundew and d the HII Venue r fl fly fir traps Je give Jeo o off oft a ti ky fluid 90 in n j to V H fe nIAD aP The If l f i wraP wraps itself around f th prisoner abd aid literally mets at t It ft In Io Mime annie plants plant to blade IRle of the thc leaf fat is 19 into two to jaws to resemble rf a a. steel tn trap p. p A few tilt tiff hairs constitute the trigger ar ar- and ud nd the in ct which touches one one one-of of these thoM its own death sentence e Other plants hue have tin tiny bladders on 00 tb their tr leaves leave and even baby fish aT ape e and eaten The largest larot o of 11 ll of or the subkingdoms doron doms of the plant world word is ill that of toe the These are almost exclusively tho the plants plaids wl lb afford food 1000 for tho ho bees bf and butterflies As tb the insect life liro is i. is the the- most mod numerous of all aU of ot tho the forms forma of ot animal life lite BO so the tho an- an Ito rm aYe ate the thc most mort numerous of all II the kinds of plants Their interrelation inter inter- relation r. form ii a example of Ot the tb interdependence of plants and BO animals lna Many Ian of tb these o plant plants possess pos poe cess sess unique fa facilities for making makin tho the bee andt butterflies baUer the be earners rs of their pol pollen co Some mt of tl them have hare ve very sensitive o parts parte in in their blooms bloom an when to touched ehl these snap like minute triggers scattering the po pollen II eo ell all ll over the insect visitor loO Invented A thousand i in ingenious contrivance contrivance- tri ba have hac been invented in b by by the 1 flowers to 0 enable them uc successful to cope with nil all of ot the tM other plants of the world worM Inthe in inthe the tho great struggle for existence An example of Qt the tho effect of 0 environment upon plant lif hf life is is afforded by corn toto and wild willi crew The former has been becu cil t an and ami its battles buttles fought fou In J y the farmer so Ion long that it has haa prad practically cally lost lod tho the a ability bili h to propagate itself un un- un- un aided On the other band bud the wild cress creal hn has hns bC been 11 fighting so eo o long for a II foothold that it flourishes in spite slite Of the p persistent rS stent efforts to end flud It its ts II ex cx Sh Sheep sorrel Sheer sorrel IR in moro more often otten than thau oot victor over or the r. r w iu its ita battle battles bat bAt- tle for fat or O while oats might rIl da appear from fron the lund hind but for the tho kindly kind ly Iy support url ort given 11 it by t the farmer Tn In his 8 work of ld stud mg the pL vt life of the tho th world the botanist h has bu i found loun n ne new w species which have t Iro proved 1 of ot rent greet economic importance to map man Likewise ho hG hus luuis so o modified oth other oIlier r species O as nil ti to make kt them produce benefits u jl it greater than thanin in ii their lJ condition The flue pu- pu pa patient 11 tient man luau who nukes makes these t rt researches seldom receives recedes t the hp 1111 a portion of the tile rElit credit that is ill duo 1111 him hium for toi the benefice e e of applied l al |