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the stalk, on which the seeds, when they fall, 

 roll down in every direction to the ground. 

 This circular inclined plane is often very 



Wood hyacinth run to seed 



wide, so that the seeds are scattered to a 

 distance from the parent bulb, and so the plant 

 spreads and spreads until our woods and 

 coppices are blue with the pretty flowers. 



