STICK-TIGHTS. 
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There are several species of stick-tights, or beggar 
ticks, as they are more generally called. 
Some have rather large flower heads, with the outer 
flowers each provided with a long, broad yellow petal. 
These are often called wild sunflowers, because they look 
something like a little sunflower. 
There is a plant called Spanish needles, very closely 
related to the stick-tights, and that has four horns to 
its seed pod. 
The burr marigold, which grows in wet places, and 
whose greenish flower heads are round like a marble, is 
also related to the stick-tights, and, like the Spanish 
needles, has four horns. 
A great many plants have these little horned seed 
cases, and when you go about the country in the fall of 
the year you will be certain to make the acquaintance 
of some of them. The plants with horned seed pods 
wish their seeds to get out of the dense thickets in 
which they usually grow, and they do what they can to 
help them. 
