Homes Without Hands Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals Classed
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— The curious Habitation which it makes. The reader can not but notice the singular aptitude possessed by the oak-tree for nourishing galls. No part of the tree seems to escape the presence of a gall of some sort, diverting its vital powers into other channels. The tree, however, does not appear to suffer from them, and it is just possible that they may be use- ful to it. The leaves are studded with galls, and so are their stems. The branches are covered with galls of various shapes, sizes, and... colors, some bright, smooth, and softly colored, like ripe fruit, others hard, harsh, spiny, and rough, as if the very essence of the gnarled branches had been concentrated in them. There are galls upon the flowers, galls upon the trunk, and even galls upon the root. 518 HOMES WITHOUT HANDS. Some oak-galls may be called compound galls. M. Bosc men- tions a small gall which is found upon the American oak. It is not larger than a pea, and if shaken is found to contain some hard substance loosely lodged in its interior.
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