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most barren furze bushes of Surrey after some great heath 

 fire. 



Some seeds are more active, though their journeys are 

 shorter than the balloons. While the writer was busy about 

 this chapter, in a room close by the seashore in the Isle of 



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SYCAMORE SEEDS 



Wight, a sycamore seed, spinning round with dizzy energy, 

 struck the window with a loud rap, as a cockchafer might in 

 its headlong evening flight. So far had this seed come on 

 the oarage of this aerial screw that one could not find the 

 tree from which it had been launched. 



Any one who has seen, as all must have seen, the host 

 of seedlings which spring up in the neighbourhood of a 



