“I wonder if that wasn’t this plant?” Bet asked as she held up a dried flower head, out of which a worm seemed to be crawling.
“That’s it!” cried Mary Frances. “What is the plant called, please?”
“It has a very long name,” Bouncing Bet replied; “too long for you to remember, I fear; but it means a ‘coiled worm,’ and shows how perfectly one plant mother has performed this comical trick.”
“I suspect all plant mothers have some trick,” Mary Frances ventured.
“That leads me to tell you about one kind of plants we’ve not yet mentioned.
They are the—
Plants without Flowers
If plants have no flowers, you will ask, how can the new baby plants grow? Can there be seed babies without flowers?
No, flowerless plants do not bear seeds, but they do have plant babies, otherwise we would not have ferns, mushrooms, and many other important plants.