Deseret Evening News | 1906-09-20 | Page 4 | A Plant like a Clock

A PLANT LIKE A CLOCK Chicago Journal There Thero is a 11 plant plan I a native naUvo of Borneo which Is known u IU the clock plant The name namo Is III derived from tho the action of or the suns tuns rays ros on the tho leaves which tire are three In number a large one ex cx extending extending tending forward with two small mall ones at nt the base baso pointing sideways These ThuG corning coming In contact with tire the rays tIB of the sun Mun o like the tho pendulum of ot a n clock the larger leaf moving upward u and 1111 downward going its Ito full length every er minutes minute the smaller loon moving toward the larger com corn completing pitting the tho distance forward and back backward backward ward every Iery minutes thus resembling r tho the hour and minute hands hand of a clock