Wild lettuce.
There is a wild lettuce, however, that has a large number of flower heads, and of course a great many pretty, silky, tufted akenes. These lettuces sometimes shine as if they had been snowed upon when their silky, white plumed akenes first open out.
I advise you to see if you can find some of them next summer. The best place to look is alongside fences and hedges and in the corners of pastures.
There is a lettuce so troublesome to the farmer that large sums of money have been appropriated to exterminate it. It is called the Prickly Lettuce, because its leaves and stalks are prickly. It came to this country from Europe. It is quite as destructive to the farmer’s crops as is the Canada thistle.
CLEMATIS.
Of course the clematis akenes fly. Nothing so fluffy as they, in the seed world, could do otherwise.