Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-02-15
The Travelling Of Plants.
rSechau's MontIly.l

There ate few more interesting studies
connected with Wild flowers IMAM tue
geography 81 plants Plants are essen
daily travellers No even The most
steadily disposed rcmsins perpetuaty IN
one rl4ce fhe bulb produces buhlet
az its SIDE. beneath or above il ard theN
dies leaving vacant the spot which it &c
eupied Sometimes the plaus travels
flster hv Offsets. or UvuGcrs, and is still
wider distributed by buds or seeds 1t
| il only n question 0! time for the siowesy
plants 70 advance to immense distances,
/ and we may reasonably conclude
/ that no species Of plant hss beer 81 way ;
/ In the location where We now find it.
/ There il, Of course, Il regrogressi0n as
well as An advauce. and the same ground
may have Teen occupied and Icoecuptsd
I number of times. Is Just possible
/ that q spGcies ahuud mt in airy one lncg-
! tion may always have been there from
( its first appearance on the earth, but
bearing in mind the known essential
! character of a plant 70 travel. we may
/ reasonably believe the probabilities to
/ he ggAinst that conclusion. aud hence
[ the effort 70 traCe the plant to its orig
! irsl hume is clothed with pyculiAc IL
teres.. There are Macy agencies by
which plants travel, Independently Of
those which are pa7ts of tnclr
owr natures Auima.s carry both
the plants Themselves aud their Sstds,
snd the winds and waters are
ever at work on the task Of dis
tributiou. Rivers especially have very
important part, and the plant geogra-
/ pber generally finds the range Of d
| species much greater in the line of &
stream than in lateral directors As 10
1 where any Que species first INSIDE its ap
pearaucs nothing has yet been diseov
cred There is reason 10 h. lieve that
they did not aPpear simultaneously
some are certainly B7cre recent thar
others: but though new species arc coz
tinuallv being discovered, no enc has
yet been found that could be pro
noaneed . mcdJTn creation IN the
sense the ay.ragc MUD woUid under
stand by medera times Bat though this
field Of study seems hopele ssly I'M p ne
trable, The earnest student Is cittn for.
nished with gitnpses of TIE interior, aud
which keep hm IN hopes u 4 hstier re
ward some day. O4e of these welcome
aids in these interesting researches is the
/ LeBachgS C1{amHaris Il was first CT
covered ny Bradbury or huttall, most
probably the former, in the lower por-
ton of what Was oaes the great Hii.-
souri, territory, and WHICH embraced a!
oze time nearly al the land we
now possess between the aissis-
sippi aud the Rocky Mountains
but since that time it has been found BY
almost every government EXPEDITION
along the lines OF most ff the stream:
examined Thus one. reports it So found
on lite Upper Canadian" ans ther
"prairies along the Canadian another
la The Upper Arkansas and rs We
proceed along almost every river thai
runs into the Missouri up TO is very
source the L. paeA8s Is found And il ey.
lists on sse high prairie ridge which di
!, vides the waters OF the s 9uth from lhost
!, flowing north. and the plant follows tlit
Saskatchewan in it's northeast eeuszs
: towards Hudson's bay. A plant v>Siel
: had its ancient home in warm eiinati
/ would be able to resiss but very iietlt
! cold, and It's northward travels be limit
, e. by the winter Temperature. liz i
therefore probable that the Lgpachgl
E sprang frat into life in the upper Mis-
i sluri region, and then spread north aa6