HIDE AND SEEK. in 



different finished examples of it show. Sometimes the 

 " clock " or pappus has a long stalk, as in the Dande- 

 lion ; and at others it is quite with- 

 out, as in the Ragwort {Se?iecio 

 jacobcBci). Even the cottony hairs 

 of the " clock " have been improved 

 upon by the Goat's-beard {Trago- 

 pogoii pratensis)^ the Artichoke, and 

 Carline Thistle {Carlina V7tlgaris), fig. 48. — Dandelion — 



,.,,•, 1 , with feathery pappi 



etc., m which they have become attached to fruits ; b, 

 plumose or feathery— a complexer R^pe flower-head. 

 structure, and indubitably one better fitted to be 

 carried by the wind, for the feathery hairs interlock 

 into a hollow cone like the selected feathers in the 

 more expensive kinds of children's shuttlecocks. 



Singularly enough, in some mammal-dispersed 

 fruits, the hooks they bear are formed by parts of 

 the calyx being persistent, and becoming hard and 

 woody. Perhaps no other auxiliary floral organ is 

 so ready to turn itself to advantage, and be a " Jack- 

 of-all-trades " to the valuable seeds it subserves, as 

 the calyx. The better we are acquainted with 

 structural botany, the more are we surprised at the 

 numerous characters assumed by this organ. They 

 are always developed in view of some advantage 

 to the seeds and their dissemination. 



Those near relations to the Thistles, and therefore 

 to the Compositce — the Teasels {Dipsacecs) have 

 managed to take out the same patent as their first 



