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and ferns possess spores. Being so small and light, spores 

 float great distances with the wind, and it is thus that the 



FIG. 141. Pretty Seed Pods. 

 (" Butterprint " weed.) 



germs of disease, of decay, of fermentation, the mosses and 

 lichens, the fungi, and the ferns are so widely scattered. 

 Of greater interest are the devices for seed dispersal. The 



