. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. 268 L£:SSONS WITB PLANTS hang on the plant; or he may lay them on a table and apply alight pressure with the fingers. Ripe pods dropped upon the walkare shattered the instant they strike. Two wild plants inhabitinglow places, closely allied to the balsam, are known as jewel-weeds,and bear curiously sensitive pods. 3166. The fruits of many plants east their seeds forcibly, oftenthrowing them a distance of several feet. The oxalis and violetmay be observed; also wistaria, jack bean (now grown i
. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. 268 L£:SSONS WITB PLANTS hang on the plant; or he may lay them on a table and apply alight pressure with the fingers. Ripe pods dropped upon the walkare shattered the instant they strike. Two wild plants inhabitinglow places, closely allied to the balsam, are known as jewel-weeds,and bear curiously sensitive pods. 3166. The fruits of many plants east their seeds forcibly, oftenthrowing them a distance of several feet. The oxalis and violetmay be observed; also wistaria, jack bean (now grown in the South),. Pig. 259. Explosion of thebalsam pod.
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