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SEED DISPERSAL. 
anemone, cotton grass, and cat-tail flag. These last 
named are apparently designed to be wafted by the wind, 
Fig. 60. — A fruit of tick-trefoil, Desmodium , and a few of the 
grappling hooks enlarged. 
but they are ever ready to improve any other opportunity 
offered, whether it be by water or by clinging to passing 
animals. 
50. Seeds enough and to spare. — In producing seeds 
nature is generous, often lavish. Most seeds are eaten by 
Fig. 61. — A head of the Fig. 62. — Fruit of 
fruits of burdock. cocklebur. 
animals, or fall in places where they cannot germinate and 
produce plants, or fall in such numbers that most of 
