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Show Nature's Wise Provision. Plants travel to astonishing distances. dis-tances. The seeds stock to this or that article and are carried by ships and by those that go down to the sea: in ships, from one end of the world to the other. Sir Joseph Hooker relates re-lates a striking instance of this seed-carrying, seed-carrying, which is perpetually going: on. "On one occasion," he says, iUand- ing on a Email uninhabited island nearly near-ly at the antipo'des, the first evidence: I met with of its having been previously pre-viously visited by man was the English Eng-lish chickweed, and this I traced to a mound that, marked the grave of a British sailor, and that was covered with the plant, doubtless the offspring of seed that had adhered to the spado or mattock with which the grave had been dug." x |