CHAPTER VI 



THE WIND AND THE FLOWERS 



HE reader may think it 

 strange and inconsistent for us 

 to turn from our studies of the 

 most complex, interesting, and 

 highly developed of the flowers, 

 / and give our attention to the sim- 



ple, primitive, and lowly ones, which trust their 

 lives and destinies to the fickle favours of the wind. 



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