The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner • Paragraph 192
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Sometimes the water is so abundant in the plant that it collects as drops on the tips of the leaves and falls off as fluid water. A very young greenhouse plant (_Caladium nymphaefolium_) was found by Molisch to give off 190 water-drops a minute, and in one night it exuded one-seventeenth of a pint.