Cattails with ripe
seeds.
Of course the seed pods fly away on the wings of the wind. Being so small and light, they are sometimes carried a long distance.
A good many, no doubt, are so unfortunate as to fall on dry ground, and that is the end of them.
But others fall in swamps and ditches, where they grow vigorously and often fill up the swamp or the ditch so that it becomes a bed of cattails.
The downy cattail seeds are gathered in some places and made into mattresses for people to sleep on.
GERANIUMS.
