Elementary botany (1898) Elementary botany elementarybotany00atki Year: 1898 CHAPTER LI. SEED DISTRIBUTION. 672. Means for dissemination of seeds.—During Late summer or autumn a walk in the woods or afield often convinces us of the perfection and variety of means with which plants are provided for the dissemination of their seeds, especially when we discover that several hundred seeds or fruits of different plants are stealing a ride at our expense and annoyance. The hooks and barbs on various seed-pods catch into the hairs of passing animals and the seeds may thus be transported '^^m^ consid
Elementary botany (1898) Elementary botany elementarybotany00atki Year: 1898 CHAPTER LI. SEED DISTRIBUTION. 672. Means for dissemination of seeds.—During Late summer or autumn a walk in the woods or afield often convinces us of the perfection and variety of means with which plants are provided for the dissemination of their seeds, especially when we discover that several hundred seeds or fruits of different plants are stealing a ride at our expense and annoyance. The hooks and barbs on various seed-pods catch into the hairs of passing animals and the seeds may thus be transported '^^m^ considerable distances. Among the plants familiar to us, which have such contrivances for unlawfully gaining transportation, are the beggar-ticks or stick tights, or sometimes called
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