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From: "'clarkaw' clarkaw(-at-)syix.com [anaglyphs]" <anaglyphs(-at-)yahoogroups.com>
To: anaglyphs(-at-)yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2014 8:06 PM
Subject: [Anaglyphs] Pussy Paws [1 Attachment]

 

Not the drink of the same name, but the plant. Lots of varieties. Tiny seeds.

 

 

The seeds of the plant known as pussy-paws (Spraguea umbellata) seem, wherever obtainable, to be especially sought after by chipmunks. These seeds are very small (0.7 to 1.2 mm. in diameter), flattish, smooth, and glistening black; and they prove exceedingly elusive to human handling. The fact that the mass of seeds in a chipmunk's cheek pouches is invariably free of chaff or any other useless material bespeaks a marvelous degree of dexterity on the part of the harvester. When we note that one load contained practically 5000 seeds, and recall the complicated nature and rapidity of the movements of the forefeet, lips, and tongue which must be involved in the act of gathering seeds, our wonder at the effectiveness of the chipmunk's nervous and muscular organization is beyond expression.

 

I left the lower plant in the crop because it?s another that I just learned. Now that I know what it is, I see it everywhere. Coville?s Lip Fern.

Art