THE LARGEST PLANT IN THE WORLD.
We are accastomed to regard the great trees of California as the most gigantic epecimens of v- getable growths known to man. but such is not the case. There is a submarine plant growing in the North Paciflc ocean which, according to Profes;. sor Ijeinsch, dwarfs all others in its vast' proportions. The Macrocystis pyrifera, one of the Melaßospermat, has been known to grow to such an extent as to cover vast areas of the ocean bed. One specimen, by measurement, was found to cover three square, miles, and the stem from? wlfich the growth proceeded was eight feet in diameter, It is almost impossible to conceive of such a plant, or how such a system of nourishment can be maintained through such extended channels in the living organism. Nature performs strange freaks, and certainly none can be stranger than the fact that of this gigantic species there are some specimens so small as to be microscopic, or only to be seen by the aid of powerful objectiTes.— Journal of Chemistry. .
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3140, 12 March 1879, Page 4
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177THE LARGEST PLANT IN THE WORLD. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3140, 12 March 1879, Page 4
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