DISPERSAL BY WIND. 



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the style (with nut suspended below) slides out of the hole, around which the 

 perianth-lobes are connate, until its further progress is arrested by the button -like 



Fig. 471. — Dispersion of fruits and seeds by the wind. 



1 Senecio vulgaris. ^ Adenium. Honghel. * Valeriami tripteris. * Typha Sckuttlewo-rthii. 6 Eriophorum avgustifolmm. 

 6 Cynanchum fuscatuin. 7 Micromeria nervosa. 8 and « Taraxacum ojjicinale. lo Salix Myrsinites. 



stigma. The perianth here forms a beautiful parachute, with the nut hanging 

 freely below at the end of a string, like an enterprising balloon-gymnast. 



From the fruits and seeds equipped with parachutes we pass to those which are 

 embedded in masses of wool or in envelopes of silky hairs, and are thereby enabled 



