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Fruits and Seeds. 



touches one of these ripe fruits, they are often 

 thrown with such force as to strike him in the face. 

 6. Even those species which do not eject their 

 seeds often have them so placed with reference to the 

 capsule that they only leave it if swung or jerked 

 by a high wind. In the case of trees, even seeds 



Fig. 74. POPPY-HEAD. 



with no special adaptation for dispersion must in 

 this manner be often carried to no little distance ; 

 and to a certain, though less extent, this must hold 

 good even with herbaceous plants. It throws light 

 on the fact that in so many plants with small, heavy 



