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Excerpt from The Sensitive Plant In the attempt, however, to identify Shelley's plant with Mimosa pudica, which is a straggling shrub not attaining a height of more than three or four feet when grown in a hot-house, the question of temperature becomes a very difficult one. For Mimosa pudica would not grow in an open garden at Pisa, or anywhere else in Italy, if the climate involved frost. But if the climate did not involve frost, then the Sensitive Plant could not be killed by it, and the poem loses its point. The only theory upon which the facts stated in the poem are prosaically explicable, is that the Sensitive Plant was bedded out, from a hot-house, for the summer, and was left to perish with cold when winter came. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Full title: The Sensitive Plant (Classic Reprint)
• Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 154
• EAN: 9781334365348
• ISBN: 1334365342
• ID: 15492630
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Weight: 216 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 8 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. November 2016

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