oS 
purple flowers (Fig. 17). And you know the puffy 
pods that later split 
open, letting out a 
mass of brown, 
silky-tailed seeds. 
Phere ley have 
given the answer to my 
own question ; for if the 
plant’s fruit is the seed- 
holding part, then the milk- 
weed’s fruit must be this pod @i, 7 
stuffed full of beautiful, fairy- e 
like seeds. Y dat 
Then you know the burdock (Fig. 18) 
which grows along the country road. 
FIG. 17 
But perhaps you do not know that 
the fruit of this is the prickly 
burr which hooks itself to your clothes on 
your way to school. This burr (Fig. 19) 
is the case which holds the little seeds 
of the burdock, and so it must 
be its fruit. 
The fruit of the dandelion 
is the silvery puffball (Fig. 
20) or “clock,” by blowing at 
Fic. 18 
which you try to tell the time of day. 
If you pull off one of the feathery 
objects which go to make up the 
puffball, at its lower end you see a 
little dandelion seedbox (Fig. 21). 
And these fall days, along the roadsides and in the 
FIG. 20 
