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Some seeds bury themselves. The Filaree, Foxtail 



and Wild Oats have seeds of this kind. If you can 

 obtain these, place them on the sur- 

 face of moist soil (a rough, uneven 

 surface is best) , and water them oc- 

 casionally. How do the "clocks" 

 assist in burying the Filaree? In 

 order to see them work to best ad- 

 vantage, they should be placed (seed 

 end down) on moist cotton (see 

 Fig. 55). The seeds of the garden 

 Geranium (or Pelargonium) act in 

 the same way, but to a very slight 

 degree as compared with the Filaree. 



Buried seeds, 

 which escape - 



from their coverings only to find 



themselves imprisoned under gro'und, 



have before them the problem of get- 



ting their stems up into the air and 



light ; which plants seem to achieve this 



most easily? Notice the Corn (Fig. 



56), which seems to pierce the soil 



with ease by means of its sharp bod- 



kin of firmly rolled leaves; the Scar- 



let Runner (Fig. 57) seems clumsy by 



comparison, ramming its crooked 



.. , 



stem forcibly through the soil and. 



Corn making its way 

 above ground. 



57. Bean getting above 



