. Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany. With a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany. MODE OF LIFE IN PERENNIALS. 31 76. In some perennial herbs, prostrate stems or branches under gronnd are thickened with tliis store of nourishment for their whole length, making stout RootstocJcs, as they are called; as in Sweet Flag, Solomon's Seal (Fig. Q'^), and Iris, or Flower-de- Luce (Fig. G4). These are perennial, and grow on a little way each year, dying off as much behind a
. Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany. With a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany. MODE OF LIFE IN PERENNIALS. 31 76. In some perennial herbs, prostrate stems or branches under gronnd are thickened with tliis store of nourishment for their whole length, making stout RootstocJcs, as they are called; as in Sweet Flag, Solomon's Seal (Fig. Q'^), and Iris, or Flower-de- Luce (Fig. G4). These are perennial, and grow on a little way each year, dying off as much behind after a while ; and the newer parts every year send out a new set of fibrous roots. The buds which rootstalks produce, and the leaves or the scales they bear, or the scars or rings which mark where the old leaves or scales have fallen or decayed away, all plainly show that rootstocks are forms of stem, and not roots. The large round scars on the root- stock of Solomon's Seal, which give the plant its name, (from their looking like impressions of a seal,) are the places from â which the stalk bearing the leaves and flowers of each season has fallen off in autumn. Fig. G3, a is the bud at the end, to make the growth above ground next spring; b is the bottom of the stalk of this season; c, the scar or place from which the stalk of last year fell; d, that of the year before; and c^ tliat of two years ago. \VW 11. Finally, the nourishment for the next vear's G:rowth may be deposited in the leaves ⢠- '^i.^^^"->;v: themselves. Sometimes it occupies all iho. '^^^â i'\''^^'''^\^^^'l,X\ leaf, as in the Houseleek (Fig. Q>b) and other fleshy i^lants. Here the close ranks of the thickened leaves are wholly above ground. Sometimes the deposit is all in the lower end of the leaf, and on the ground, or un- derneath, as in common Bulbs. Take a "White Lily of the gardens, for example, in the fall, or in spring before it sends up the stalk of the season (Fig. C6). From the bo
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