. Botany for agricultural students . Botany. EXPOSURE TO LIGHT 239 The leaves of Corn and other Grasses are good examples of the alternate arrangement. In Corn, for example, the second leaf appears at the next node above and on the opposite side of the stem from the first leaf, and the third leaf appears at the third node and almost directly over the first leaf. Usually on account of a slight twisting of the stem, the leaf blades do not occur. Fig. 221. — Tobacco, a plaat with the alternate arrangement of leaves. After Hayes. directly over each other, but extend in slightly different direc- ti
. Botany for agricultural students . Botany. EXPOSURE TO LIGHT 239 The leaves of Corn and other Grasses are good examples of the alternate arrangement. In Corn, for example, the second leaf appears at the next node above and on the opposite side of the stem from the first leaf, and the third leaf appears at the third node and almost directly over the first leaf. Usually on account of a slight twisting of the stem, the leaf blades do not occur. Fig. 221. — Tobacco, a plaat with the alternate arrangement of leaves. After Hayes. directly over each other, but extend in slightly different direc- tions, so that the lower leaves are not directly in the shade of the upper ones. In fruit trees and many other plants having the alter- nate arrangement, the second leaf is not quite on the opposite side from the first and neither is the third leaf usually over the first. {Fig. 221.) The leaves are so arranged that no large open spaces appear in looking in from the end of the twig as shown in. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Martin, John N. (John Nathan), b. 1875. New York : John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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