74 LITTLE WANDERERS. 
edge of the stick-tight that help it to cling. On one 
species of stick-tight these teeth point backward, like 
the barbs of a fishhook, and that kind sticks very 
tightly. 
Stick-tight plants blossom in the summer time. The 
greenish-yellow flowers are clustered in heads like the 
dandelion flowers, and like those each stick-tight flower 
has an akene at the bottom. These akenes grow much 
larger than those of the dandelion, and they have the 
two horns on their heads. 
The akenes stand on a flat cushion, just as the dande- 
lion akenes do, but these do not wait for the wind to 
blow them away, though, if nothing comes along to pull 
them loose, they in time become very dry and fall out, 
and then the wind often carries the light little things 
some distance. 
But their favorite method of traveling is by stage- 
coach, and if you happen along at the right time they 
will take you for their stagecoach, and let you carry 
them to a new place. Sometimes the plants grow so 
closely together that in passing through them one 
becomes quite covered with the little brown things,, and 
it is a long and tiresome task to pick them out. 
They, too, get on the tails and manes of horses, and 
the tails of cows, the coats of dogs, and the fleeces of 
sheep ; but they are not nearly as troublesome to these 
creatures as are the burdocks.. 
