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Show The Balloon Plant Ono of tho curious devices of nature for scattrclng seeds Is seen In tho balloon bal-loon plant of California. Tho fruit Is yellow, nnd Is n Uttlo larger than nn egg. It has tho appearanco of an empty bag, but It contains a watery substnnco which ovnporates or dries up when tho fruit mntures, a sort of gas taking Its placo. This gas Is lighter than air, and tho fruit flips back and forth In tho wind until It finally breaks looso from Its slender stem, rises Into tho nlr to a height of soventy-flvo to a hundred feet, and sails away to fall In some distant spot, and thus oxtond tho growth of Its kind. |