. An encyclopædia of gardening; . Book I. PROPAGATION OF VEGETABLES. 185 also furnished with a resource. One of the most common modes by which seeds are conveyed to a dis-tance from their place of growth is that of the instrumentality of animals. Many seeds are thus carried toa distance from their place of growth merely by their attaching themselves to the bodies of such animalsas may happen accidentally to come in contact with the plant in their search after food ; the hooks or hairs?with which one part or other of the fructification is often furnished serving as the medium of attachment,-Jid
. An encyclopædia of gardening; . Book I. PROPAGATION OF VEGETABLES. 185 also furnished with a resource. One of the most common modes by which seeds are conveyed to a dis-tance from their place of growth is that of the instrumentality of animals. Many seeds are thus carried toa distance from their place of growth merely by their attaching themselves to the bodies of such animalsas may happen accidentally to come in contact with the plant in their search after food ; the hooks or hairs?with which one part or other of the fructification is often furnished serving as the medium of attachment,-Jid the seed being thus carried about with the animal till it is again detached by some accidental cause, and*tlast committed to the soil. This may be exemplified in the case of the bidens and myosotis, in which\he hooks or prickles are attached to the seed itself; or in the case of galium aparine and others, in whichthey are attached to the pericarp; or in the case of the thistle and the burdock, in which they are attachedto the
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