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A similar but even more far-reaching process is exhibited by the Tillandsia as regards the three substances referred to above. From the conditions given, it follows that the plant cannot possibly get these substances elsewhere than out of the surrounding atmosphere, and that in drawing upon them it submits them to a high degree of condensation.
Near its centre I could perceive the ashes and half-burnt embers of an extinct fire; and along one side was strewed a thick covering of dry tillandsia, that had evidently been used as a bed. An old blanket lying upon the moss gave further testimony that this was its purpose. There was no furniture.
The Angolan orchilla was first sent to Lisbon by Sr. F. R. Batalha: it is a moss, like the tillandsia of the Southern United States, and I afterwards recognized it in the island of Annobom. Passing Pembe and other outlying hamlets, after nine hours of burning sun, we entered Calumbo Town, and were hospitably lodged by the Portuguese Commandant.
Our steps were towards the "Shell Road," and soon our feet crunched upon the fragments of unios and bivalves that strewed the path. Here was a scene more in unison with our thoughts. Above and around waved the dark solemn cypress-trees, fit emblems of grief rendered doubly lugubrious in their expression by the hoary tillandsia, that draped them like a couch of the dead.
Think of our danger, and it may enable you to form some idea of what were our feelings after returning from our bootless hunt after the horses. We had no choice but stay where we were till morning. We spent half-an-hour in dragging the tillandsia from the trees, and collecting the soft leaves of the pawpaws. With these I strewed the ground; and, placing Aurore upon it, I covered her with my cloak.
In no part of the world are scenes like these; nowhere is soft beauty blended so harmoniously with wild picturesqueness. And yet not a mountain meets the eye not even a hill but the dark cyprieres, draped with the silvery tillandsia, form a background to the picture with all the grandeur of the pyrogenous granite! The forest no longer fringes thee here.
After dragging down some of the creeping vines, he twined them between the forks of a branch, so as to form a little platform. He next tore off several bundles of the tillandsia, and placed it over the spot thus wattled.
This applies to samples taken from districts where the rainwater the only source from which the plant could extract these substances in physical form contains at most 1·65 per cent iron, 0·01 per cent silicic acid and no phosphoric acid at all. The Tillandsia phenomenon is to a certain extent reminiscent of another well-known plant activity.
They brought a new batch of monstrosities from the wagon: Echinopses, issuing from padded compresses with rose-colored flowers that looked like the pitiful stumps; gaping Nidularia revealing skinless foundations in steel plates; Tillandsia Lindeni, the color of wine must, with jagged scrapers; Cypripedia, with complicated contours, a crazy piece of work seemingly designed by a crazy inventor.
Lichens of every colour and shape abounded, and clothed the trunks gracefully, contrasting with the tender spring tints of the leaves, while the long hairy tillandsia, like an old man's beard, three or four feet long, hung down from the topmost branches.
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