. The natural history of plants, their forms, growth, reproduction, and distribution;. Botany. DISPERSAL BY WIND. 857 the style (with nut suspended below) slides out of the hole, around which the perianth-lobes are connate, until its further progress is arrested by the button-like. Fig. 471.—Dispersion of fruits and seeds by the wind. 1 Senecio vulgaris. 2 Adeiiium Eonghel. » Valeriana tripteris. * TypJia Schuttlewortkii. 6 JSriophoruTn angustifolium. « Cynamchumfuscaturn. ' Micromeria nervosa. » and » Taraxacum oficitiale. lo Salix JHyrsinites. stigma. The perianth here forms a beautiful para
. The natural history of plants, their forms, growth, reproduction, and distribution;. Botany. DISPERSAL BY WIND. 857 the style (with nut suspended below) slides out of the hole, around which the perianth-lobes are connate, until its further progress is arrested by the button-like. Fig. 471.—Dispersion of fruits and seeds by the wind. 1 Senecio vulgaris. 2 Adeiiium Eonghel. » Valeriana tripteris. * TypJia Schuttlewortkii. 6 JSriophoruTn angustifolium. « Cynamchumfuscaturn. ' Micromeria nervosa. » and » Taraxacum oficitiale. lo Salix JHyrsinites. stigma. The perianth here forms a beautiful parachute, with the nut hanging freely below at the end of a string, like an enterprising balloon-gymnast. From the fruits and seeds equipped with parachutes we pass to those which are embedded in masses of wool or in envelopes of silky hairs, and are thereby enabled. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Kerner von Marilaun, Anton, 1831-1898; Oliver, F. W. (Francis Wall), 1864-1951; Busk, Marian (Balfour) Lady, 1861-1941; Macdonald, Mary Frances (Ewart); Kerner von Marilaun, Anton, 1831-1898. Pflanzenleben. English. New York, H. Holt and Company
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