Show arctic flowering plants 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 hasfal has failed led to reveal more than three or four kinds of flowering plants the vegetation 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 go insignificant with us form immense clumps in the antarctic several feet high during the long winter the clumps freeze solid but the cold does not harm the moss mosa in the least and du during ring the few months when the temperature temper atura Is more genial it grows with great vigor in the arctic circle at least of flowering plants have haie been discovered and it Is likely that there are many more large areas within only a few hundred miles of the north pole are ablaut with blossom during the brief but extremely bright ummer summer |