. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers; . m- to the point — Amphicar-/^«,which signifies seed atboth ends. We have already-seen the pods at its upper end. Whatshall we find at the other? If we care-fully uproot the soil, the pea-nut is soondisclosed — a small one-seeded rounded AN UNDERGROUND FRUIT 167 pod, pallid, and beset with fine brown hairs, and whichnot one person in a thousand of those who know thiscommon plant has ever seen. These are the seeds thatplant the soil for next years vines, and are the fruitsof queer little underground blossom
. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers; . m- to the point — Amphicar-/^«,which signifies seed atboth ends. We have already-seen the pods at its upper end. Whatshall we find at the other? If we care-fully uproot the soil, the pea-nut is soondisclosed — a small one-seeded rounded AN UNDERGROUND FRUIT 167 pod, pallid, and beset with fine brown hairs, and whichnot one person in a thousand of those who know thiscommon plant has ever seen. These are the seeds thatplant the soil for next years vines, and are the fruitsof queer little underground blossoms, bearing no moreresemblance to those at the other end than is seenin the A BUTTERFLY BOWER .<f^
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