Capitolo 47
it in a body from the branch, and it flutters away in front of the breeze
from he/she wants to say some common parachute, to of the stain one hundred enclosures or more,
where the wind happens to disembark him/it.
The tallest place of all in the hierarchy of the life of seed, seems to me,
you/he/she is taken here by the feathered fruits and seeds that are floating freely of and
there wherever the wind can bear them. An immense number of the a lot
taller plants--the aristocrats of the vegetable kingdom as the
composite grandiose, that last products of the evolution of plant--possesses
feathered and so afloat seeds; although here, again the varieties of
detail is too much endless for the rapid or popular classification. Indeed,
among the composites alone--the thistle and tribe of tooth of lion with downy
fruits--I can calculate above more than one hundred and fifty separate
variations of plan among the known winged seeds to me in the various parts
of Europe. But if I am strong, I am merciful: I will make away the public
with one hundred and forty-eight of them. My two exceptions will be
John-go-to-bed-to-midday and the hairy hawkweed, both of their commune
Lawn-plants of English. The first one, and he/she called more characteristically, of the two
you/he/she has strengthened with nervous systems few fruits that end in a long and narrow beak, while sustaining
a radial rib-job of rays as the frame of an umbrella; and from rib
to strengthen with nervous systems of this stretching of structure feathered cross-pieces, continuous everybody
you round off, as to make some whole mechanism a perfect circular
you parachute, while resembling to rather the web of a geometric spider. But the
still hairy hawkweed is more astute in its generation; for that intelligent
and cautious weed produces its seeds or fruits in gathered heads, of
what the central ones fly, while the outside are heavy, you squat him,
and not winged. So ago the plant makes the best of all the opportunities that you/they are able
happens to open him/it before: if a destiny goes far and rates but sick, the