OTHER FLY-AWAYS. 
A great many other plants have 
plumed seeds, and some have seeds 
with cottony coats, but of all the 
cotton-covered seeds those of the 
cotton plant are the only ones with 
fibers long and strong enough to be 
spun and woven. 
It would be useless to try to tell 
about all the fly-away seeds. There ^ 
are so many of them one would 
never get through. But it is great 
fun to discover them for ourselves. 
If we watch through the summer, 
we shall find many and many of 
them. 
Quite a number of the grasses 
have plumes to their seeds, and 
some of these plumed grasses are 
very pretty indeed. We often see 
them used to decorate houses, and 
in Florida one can see very beauti- 
ful grass plumes growing in swamps. 
Everywhere the fields and woods are 
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Fireweed. 
