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IN Prof. Stewart's collection at the Royal College of Surgeons there is a preparation of a mimosa which protects itself from browsing animals by providing in its great thorns a domicile for a species of vicious, stinging ants. I believe this example of plant-animal symbiosis comes from one of the West Indian Islands, while on the mainland of America the same species of mimosa exists, but suffers greatly from the depredations of animals, because there is no suitable ant to come and ward them off. If my recollection of the distribution is correct, the following note of a similar phenomenon in South Africa, I think, is of considerable interest.
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SCHWARZ, E. Plant-Animal Symbiosis. Nature 52, 389 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/052389b0
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