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ite of the dandelion type, has a very remarkable 

 and highly-developed parachute of this descrip- 

 tion. In the anemones and clematis the fruit 

 consists of several distinct one-seeded carpels, 



each furnished with a long feathery awn for the 

 purpose of floating ; our common English clematis 

 or traveller's joy, when in the fruiting condition, 

 is known on this account as u old man's beard." 

 Floating fruits like these, or those of many sedges 



