DISPERSION. 



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tips furnished with two or three recurved hooks 

 like miniature grapnels. It is easy to imagine how 

 such a fruit may be transported, the difficulty 

 being rather to believe in the possibility of its 

 remaining at rest (fig. 59). 



Fig. 58. — Fruit of Proboscidea Jussieui reduced. 



There could scarcely be a more conclusive evidence 

 of the utility of a large national collection of such 

 objects as those which are the subject of this chapter 



