(d) The oats area.
(e) The corn area.
(f ) The rye area.
(g) The flax area.
(h) The buckwheat area.
( i ) The tobacco area,
(j) The cotton area,
(k) The apple area.
( 1) The grape area,
(m) The peach area,
(n) The pear area,
(o) The cranberry area,
(p) The plum area.
16. Can you find any means employed hy
the plant to bury its seeds in the ground ?

Consider :

(a) The shape of the seed.
(b) Its various hairy or bristly appendages.
(c) The effects of moisture and dryness

upon such appendages.
In this connection also
Consider :

(d) The means employed in sowing wheat,

rye and other autumn crops.
17. What is the relative importance in the
world at large of the various plants found in
your vicinity f By reference to geography and
to books on distribution of life on the globe,



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Consider :

(a) Whether their distribution is more

widely east and west or north and
south.
(b) Which plants are most widely distrib-

uted?

(c) The means by which the most widely

distributed plants disperse their seeds.
(d) The relative number of seeds produced

by such plants.
(e) The effect of mountains upon the dis-

tribution of the various plants ; of
seas ; of rivers ; of climate ; of other
plants; of forests.
(f ) How the plants in your locality become
modified when they grow under dif-
ferent geographic or climatic condi-
tions.
(g) Vegetation as modified by removal of
forests.
