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Vegetable secretions and the means by which by are effected by Kate L. Hudson, 1888

Vegetable secretions and the means by which by are effected by Kate L. Hudson, 1888, Page 51

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47 to the various acids, which are poisonous even to the plants secreting them. The vegetable products under discussion include the tiny drop of mucilage on the plant hair, and the gums and resins found in quantity in the resin ducts: the globule of oil in the fruit of the olive and the abundance of latex in the latex tubes of the Euphorbia. In a broad sense the measureless energy of the vegetable world is devoted, primarily at least, to the production of what we have termed secretions - and the variety of secretion which a single plant may afford, is to some extent
 
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