Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 85
e suitably rev^arded by^^turning to MoiiLer E^^tK. <. SEED-HOLDERS SUG-GESTING LACEPURSES. In the brooks of autumnin certain places many lit-tle lace-like bags may beseen drifting along withthe current, or stranded by theshore. They are the inner coatsor bodies of the wild balsam… … The Purse-Like Seed-Carrier of t.he Wild Balsam Apple. Only two of the four seeds are pictured. autumn it has withered and faded to a palestraw color. We may see the trailing vines with their shrunken pods decorat-ing the brookside bushes far intothe winter. The outer coat of thepod gradually rots…
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