SEED distribution: 



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exquisite white flower clusters into grayish-white puffs, which scatter in the 

 autumn gusts into hundreds of arrow-headed, spiral plumes. The achenes 



Fig- 475- 

 Seed distribution of virgin's bower vclematis). 



have plumose styles, and the spiral form of the plume gives a curious tvpist 

 to the falling seed (fig. 475). 



