Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1896 — An Ant’s Dwelling, [ARTICLE]

An Ant’s Dwelling,

One <jf (the strangest members Sr the vegetable kingdom and one which of late years has become quite common as a greenhouse plant is the myrmecodia tuberosa. The plant ■ was first sent to Europe in 1811 by Dr. Collingwood from Malacca. Its stem Is tuberous and; everywhere covered with thorns. In its native country every plant is constantly inhabited by thousands of ants of the great family of myrmica, and it Is on that account that