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the flowers in which that tendency occurred ; and 

 the flowers thus perpetuated helped to pass on the 

 tendency to associate in groups. The great principle 

 of association was established among the flowers, 

 hidividualism was at a disadvantage ; collectivism 

 began to work ahead in the race of life. 



''Nor was this all. Some of the smaller flower- 

 folk were still at a disadvantage. Only by crowding 

 together in closest contact could they vie in attract- 

 iveness with their stronger, because brighter, rivals, 

 and so advertise their presence to the travelling in- 

 sects. But when some of them did thus crowd 

 together into a dense head, the tendency to dense- 

 headedness was started and continued ; and some- 

 thing began to be added to that tendency. Some 

 of the outer flowers were set apart for the especial 

 duty and task of attracting attention, while to the 

 inner group was given the work of secreting the 

 honey which was the price paid for the services of 

 the useful insects. 



''That was the way in which the great family of 

 the composite flowers came to be,— the family which 

 includes the daisy and the sunflower, the golden- 

 rod and the immortelle, the tansy and the chrysan- 

 themum. Grant Allen calls these the most advanced, 

 the most highly civilised of all the plants. They de- 

 serve the distinction. They have come to live in 

 little communities, and they have reached the point 

 of a division of labour. Every daisy by the roadside 

 is a village of tiny flowers. In that village there are 



