“The Globe Thistle (Echinops) develops irregularly, the stages of action taking place chiefly at night...” 

Seeds and Seed Dispersal.

Fig. 99. Potassium chloride. X rays and crystal structure. 1924. Internet Archive

Asplenium. New Zealand ferns. 1921.

Fascism therefore appears first of all as a concentration and so to speak condensation of power. This general signification must furthermore be accepted in several ways. The accomplished uniting of imperative forces takes place at the top, but the process leaves no social fraction inactive. In fundamental opposition to socialism, fascism is characterized by the uniting of classes. Not that classes conscious of their unity have adhered to the regime, but because expressive elements of each class have been represented in the deep movements of adherence that led to the seizing of power. Here the specific type of unification is actually derived from properly military affectivity, which is to say that the representative elements of the exploited classes have been included in the affective process only through the negation of their own nature.

Georges Bataille, “The Psychological Structure of Fascism”