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Of these nitrogenous alkaloids, even the nuts of the tree, which furnishes the most powerful, swift poison of the world, contains but three the above-named strychnia, brucia, and ignatia principles shared in common with its pathological congener, the St. Ignatius bean. First, those whose action is merely acrid so far as known expending themselves upon the mucous coats.
His congener, the osprey, soared craftily above at intervals swooping down, and striking his talons into the fish, which the alligators had tossed into the air thus robbing the reptiles of their prey, to be robbed in turn by his watchful cousin-german upon the tree.
It is a coarse-looking little plant, delighting to grow in pure gravel; but its blossoms are pretty, and now, with not another flower of any sort near it, it looked, as the homely phrase is, "as handsome as a picture." Its more generally distributed congener, Senecio vulgaris, also a foreigner is, next to the common chickweed, I should say, our very hardiest bloomer.
Still, to any one who knows how determined is the hostility to his race shown by all country people, his existence in any number must be considered remarkable. His more powerful congener the raven, as has been pointed out, is practically extinct in southern counties, and no longer attacks the shepherd's weakly lambs. Why, then, does the crow live on?
These two plants grew on the same spot, and were allowed to fertilize each other by the agency of the bees, but were kept isolated from any other congener. They flowered abundantly, but produced only one-spurred bilabiate flowers during the whole summer. They matured more than 10 cu. cm. of seeds. It is from this pair of plants that my peloric race has sprung.
Behold the common mouse, how he has followed man to this country and established himself here against all opposition, overrunning our houses and barns, while the native species is rarely seen. And when has anybody seen the American rat, while his congener from across the water has penetrated to every part of the continent!
But strobus, as it is the most valuable, is also perhaps the most delicate tree of the American forest, while its congener, the Northern pitch-pine, Pinus rigida, is less injured by fire than any other tree of that country.
In England, the common mole is well-known too well, in fact for it is the very pest of the farmer; and the damage done by it to the herbage is very considerable indeed of greater amount than that occasioned by any other wild animal. In America, where there are several species of moles, their habits are similar; and the common American mole is very like its European congener in every respect.
The hide is also used for different purposes, among others for making the whips known as "jamboks," though hippopotamus-hide is superior. The skin of the African rhinoceros, as already stated, is without the plaits, folds, and scutellæ, that characterise its Asiatic congener, yet it is far from being a soft one.
With these facts fresh in his memory, Karl conjectured that the water-hens seen by him and his companions were supported on a similar pedestal, and playing themselves on a like platform. His conjecture proved correct: for on visiting the place shortly after, the broad orbicular leaves of the Nelumbium speciosum were perceived almost as large as those of their South American congener.
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