THE COMPASS PLANT
There grows on the prairies South-West America strange plants that on many occasions have been the means of saving the lives of travel* lers lost in storms sweeping over the boundless lands. This plant, which was first brought to the attention ot the scientific world by General Benjfc* min Alvord, is one of the most remarkable in the world. Known as y 1 ® compass plant, it received its name for the strange property exhibited by i* s leaves of presenting their faces to the rising and setting sun. The c . 0m 22 plant is perennial, and during it* years bears radical leaves only. its second year it is a flowering her , with four or five leaves, measuring from twelve to thirty inches in I®®»K It is found mainly on the rich of the Mississippi Valley, and its * liar powers were well known to . ers and settlers long before Gen - Alvord discovered iL When 1°- * dark nights they would upland, by feeling its leaves, obtain bearings.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 628, 3 April 1929, Page 6
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168THE COMPASS PLANT Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 628, 3 April 1929, Page 6
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