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Show Arctic Flowering Planti One curious difference between the Arctic and Antarctic Is In the flowering plants found in each area In the regions around the South' pole the strictest search has failed to reveal more than three or four kinds of flowering plants. The vegetation veg-etation Is almost entirely composed of lichens and mosses. The mosses are indeed remarkable, attaining a development which is not to be seen elsewhere. These plants so insignificant with us, form immense im-mense clumps in the Antarctic sev eral feet high. During the long winter the clumps freeze solid but the cold does not harm the moss In the least, and during the few months when the temperature Is more genial It grows with great vigor. In the Arctic circle at least -) species of (lowering plants have been discovered, and it Is likely that there. are many more. Large ''eaS within only a lew hundred miles of the North pole are ablaze with blossom during the brief but extremely bright summer |