Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 95
er them by woundingtheir horses feet. Certain plants have fruit similar to caltrops intheir varied arrangements of sharp spines. Thename of the land-caltrop, Tribuhis terrestris, issuggestive of tribulation on land. But perhaps the most effective of all, with themost cruel method of dissemination,… … CALTROPS WITH THEIR CRUEL SPINES ALWAYSPOINTING UPWARD. The sharp points stick into the feet of animalsthat chance to step on them, and often inflictpainful wounds. The common burgrass (Ccnchnis) of oursandy fields and waste places has its fruit sospinous, and the points are so stiff and sharp,that…
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