Strange Natural Lantern Remarkable Luminous Flowers 1762

Zinnias are popular Summer and Autumn flowers.

plants. The light given out by such

strange natural lanterns is never bril-

liant, though it is sometimes bright

enough to enable one to read a printed

page in a darkened room.

Phosphorescence is, however, by no

means confined to very lowly forms of

plant life.

SPLASHES OF LIGHT.

Passing now to flowering plants, the

first subject to he recorded as luminous

was the ordinary garden nasturtium. As

far back as 1762, Christiana Linne, the

daughter of the great Swedish naturalist,

walking in her father’s garden one sultry

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