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The seeds are provided with a tuft of hairs and 

 wind-dispersed, or in Circcea the fruits are hooked and 

 dispersed by animals. 



Many ornamental garden flowers are included here, 

 e.g, Clarkia, CEnothera, Fuchsia. 



Broad smooth-leaved Willow-Herb {Epilohmn 



montanum) . 



Almost every wayside hedge is lined with scattered 

 clumps of this choice wild flower in June and onward 

 into late summer. 



Common in all parts of the British Isles, in the 

 Lake District it rises to an altitude of 1700 ft. or 

 more. It is also a native of the Channel Islands. 



Banks, hedges, roadsides, ditch-bottoms, walls, 

 cottage roofs, woods, waste and cultivated ground 

 are amongst the more usual habitats of the plant. 

 It may often be found in the garden. The variety 

 of habitat is largely due to the mode of dispersal of 

 the seeds, which is effected by aid of the wind. 

 ThiS;, indeed, is a characteristic of the plants that 

 are so dispersed. 



It is found on sandy soil in the dry woods formed 

 by the sessile and pedunculate oaks, and in other 

 woods where the sessile type of oak is predominant, 

 on siliceous soils. 



The plant is erect in habit with autumn runners 

 or offsets, which are short and sometimes stalkless, 

 underground and fleshy, or subaerial with leaves 

 forming a rosette, more or less erect. The stems are 



