CONTENTS. 



CHAPTF.R ni. 



Structure of Fruits and Seeds— Differences in Fruits and Seeds — 

 Reasons for Differences of Structure — Protection of Seeds — Edible 

 Fruits and Seeds— Movements of Plants — Arrowroot — Dandelion 

 — Linaria — Vallisneria — Dispersion of Seeds — Seeds thrown by 

 Parent Plant — Seeds sown by Parent Plant — Viola canina and 

 Hirta — Reason of Differences — Seeds thrown by Geraniums — 

 Herb Robert — Other species of Geranium — Vetch — Cardamine — 

 Squirting Cucumber — Other Plants which throw Seeds — Poppy — 

 Campanula — Swimming Spores — Eye-Spot — Vaucheria — Elaters 

 of Equisetum — Seeds carried by Wind — Valerianella — Spinifex — 

 Rose of Jericho — Winged Seeds — Maple — Sycamore — Lime — 

 Hornbeam — Elm — Birch — Pine — Fir — Ash — Feathered Seeds — 

 Clematis — Anemone — Dryas — Thiincia — Epilobiiim — Willow — 

 Cotton— Cotton Grass — Seeds adapted to be Wafted by Water- 

 Cocoa-nut Pages 45 — 72 



CHAPTER IV. 



Edible Fruits, Colours of — Sense of Colour in Animals — Seeds carried 

 by Animals — Hooked Seeds — Burdock — Agrimony — Bur Parsley 

 — Enchanter's Nightshade — Cleavers — Forget-me-Not — Harpago- 

 phyton ■- Martynia — Sticky Seeds — Winged Seeds on Trees — 

 Hooked Seeds on Bushes and Herbs — English Trees in Relation 

 to their *Tuits and Seeds — Modes of Dispersion in one Natural 

 Order— Rosaceae— Sticky Seeds especially suitable to Epiphytes- 

 Mistletoe — Arceuthobium — Myzodendron — Seeds sown by Parent 

 Plant — Trifolium — Viola — Cardamine — Ground-nut — Vetch — 

 Lathyrus— Other Species— Moving Seeds— Erodium—Stipa— 

 Species with more than one kind of Seed — Thrincia — Corydalis — 

 Alisma — Seeds which mimic Insects and other Animals — Scorpiu- 

 rus, resemblance of, to Caterpillars, Biserrala to a Centipede, Ricinus 

 to a Mite, Jatropha and Martynia to Beetles, pod of Trichosanthes 

 to a Snake — Interest and variety of Problems still remaining for 

 solution . . . . , Pages 73—96 



