Show plants that emit gas not at all uncommon when one speaks of a gas plant one naturally thinks of coat coal ovens and gua gas meters nature however provides a real gas plant specimens of which are to be found blooming la in londona Lon dons kew gardens it Is otherwise known as aa the Dicta or burning bush when a lighted match Is applied to a shoot ot 0 it there cornea comes a brilliant scarlet name flame like a flash of lightning it travels up the length of the lowering shoot without injuring it the best time to make mahe the experiment Is when the lowers flowers are fading the inflammableness of the plant Is due to this that on its stallis stalks are minute reddish brown glands and these secrete an etherly oil the glands gland 8 cevelo develop P fu fully ly soon after the blossom begins to fade but they shrivel up tip when the tha fruit begins to form luminous plants not unlike this have been n source of strange legends in india anil and there Is a at a mount mountain nin railed called mufed kolt koll in afghan bistan on which the natives believe that gold fold and silver exist in springtime the slopes are covered with bushes which at night from a distance see baem m to be on fire yet when you are clo close so to them there Is no sign alan of name flame |