LUMINOUS VEGETABLES.
Several varieties of the vegetable kingdom are luminous in a greater or less degree. One of the fungi, which is not at all uncommon on the walls of damp, dark mines, caverns, &c, occasionally emits sufficient light to admit of the reading of ordinary print by it. The emission of light from a common potato when in a state of decomposition is sometimes very Btriking. Several of the Indinu plants and grasses are also luminous, and it is said that in 1845 the mountains near Syree were nightly illuminated by their means. The root stock of a plant from the Ooraghum jungle, supposed to be an orchid, possesses the peculiar property of becoming luminous when wetted, while, when dry, it is quite lustreless. The hairy red poppy, the nasturtium and the double marigold are also luminous to a oertain degree.
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Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 71, 29 March 1890, Page 2 (Supplement)
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142LUMINOUS VEGETABLES. Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 71, 29 March 1890, Page 2 (Supplement)
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