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COMPASS PLANT

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 809 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COMPASS PLANT , a native of the See also:North See also:American prairies, which takes its name from the position assumed by the leaves. These turn their edges to north and See also:south, thus avoiding the excessive See also:mid-See also:day See also:heat, while getting the full benefit of the See also:morning and evening rays. The plant is known botanically as Silphium laciniatum, and belongs to the natural See also:order See also:Compositae. Another member of the same order, Lactuca Scariola, which has been regarded as the origin of the cultivated See also:lettuce (L. saliva), behaves in the same way when growing in dry exposed places ; it is a native of See also:Europe and See also:northern See also:Asia which has got introduced into North See also:America.

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