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Beautiful is it to observe the infinite 

 variety of means by which the same pur- 

 pose is effected. The seeds of at least fifty 

 genera are furnished with prickles, hooked 

 at the end; these adhere to such animals 

 as either frequent or graze the places of 

 their growth, and are conveyed to distant 

 parts. The chamois, bounding from rock 

 to rock, on the mountains of Carniola, 

 Greece, and Carpathia, conveys to the Al- 

 pine regions of Switzerland and Savoy, the 

 flowers which cover his native soil. Ante- 

 lopes, spread nearly over the whole of Africa, 

 partially in Eastern Europe, and through- 

 out the plains of Western, Middle, and 

 Southern Asia, bear from one region to 

 another the prickly seeds which have ad- 

 hered to their fur. Seeds belonging to a 

 hmidred and thirty-eight species are either 

 vdnged, or else provided with downy ap- 

 pendages, which render them both light 



