Fig. 56
In October and November nearly every roadside is lined with clusters such as you see in the next picture, except that the picture cannot give their soft, velvety look. These are the fruit clusters of the golden-rod (Fig. [55]), made up of quantities of silky-tailed seeds such as you see above (Fig. [56]).
And this is the fruit cluster of the aster (Fig. [57]). Each little puffball is composed of many aster seeds (Fig. [58]).
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Fig. 58
The pasture thistle is almost as beautiful in fruit as in flower. It swells up into a great silvery cushion, which finally vanishes in a cloud of floating thistle down.
And here is the fruit cluster of the dandelion (Fig. [59]), and also a single seed sailboat (Fig. [60]).