WHAT PLANTS DO FOR THEIR YOUNG. 



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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 awja for the 

 purpose of floating; our common English clematis 

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

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

 Floating fruits like these, or those of many sedges 



