. Foundations of botany. Botany; Botany. 348 FOUNDATIONS OP BOTANY same region, can hardly be distinguished from the earth in which they grow. 416. Plants of Uneatable Texture. — Whenever tender and juicy herbage is to be had, plants of hard and stringy texture are left untouched. The flinty-stemmed scouring- rushes {Equisetum, Sect. 361) and the dry, tough rushes are familiar examples of uneatable plants of damp soil. In pastures there grow such peren- nials as the bracken fern and the hardback of New England and the iron weed and vervains of the Cen- tral States, which are so harsh and woody
. Foundations of botany. Botany; Botany. 348 FOUNDATIONS OP BOTANY same region, can hardly be distinguished from the earth in which they grow. 416. Plants of Uneatable Texture. — Whenever tender and juicy herbage is to be had, plants of hard and stringy texture are left untouched. The flinty-stemmed scouring- rushes {Equisetum, Sect. 361) and the dry, tough rushes are familiar examples of uneatable plants of damp soil. In pastures there grow such peren- nials as the bracken fern and the hardback of New England and the iron weed and vervains of the Cen- tral States, which are so harsh and woody that the hungriest browsing -JkL-. 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 Bergen, Joseph Y. (Joseph Young), 1851-1917; Eastwood, Alice, 1859-1953. Boston, Ginn & Co.
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