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FOOTNOTES:
[1] Kerner, Natural History of Plants; also Scott Elliot, Nature Studies—Plant Life.
[2] The gas Carbonic acid consists of one part of Carbon and two of Oxygen. It is invisible, just as are the gaseous states of many liquids and solids. Water-vapour is not visible, though water (liquid) and ice can of course be seen. Starch, sugar, cell wall substance, etc., all contain Carbon, Oxygen, and Hydrogen. Vegetable fat is not well understood, but starch helps to form it.
[3] The ascent is assisted by the osmotic absorption of water at the root and by evaporation at the leaves.
[4] This is still the custom in the huts of the wizard or medicine-man in West Africa, where one finds small cushions stuck over with all sorts of poisonous plants, bits of human bones, and other loathsome accessories.
[5] Cooke, British Fungi.
[6] The same "woad" which was used by the Britons to paint themselves with.
[7] Lascelles, Pharm. Journ., 23 May, 1903.