. The floral kingdom : its history, sentiment and poetry : A dictionary of more than three hundred plants, with the genera and families to which they belong, and the language of each illustrated with appropriate gems to poetry . Flower language; Flowers in literature. Cellular tissue^ which composes the whole structure of some of the lower orders, as mosses, seaweeds and the like, is where the whole mass is made up of these minute oval sacs crowded close together. Peculiarly flattened, they compose the outer layer known as the skin or epidermis. Wood tissue consists of long tubes, tapering and
. The floral kingdom : its history, sentiment and poetry : A dictionary of more than three hundred plants, with the genera and families to which they belong, and the language of each illustrated with appropriate gems to poetry . Flower language; Flowers in literature. Cellular tissue^ which composes the whole structure of some of the lower orders, as mosses, seaweeds and the like, is where the whole mass is made up of these minute oval sacs crowded close together. Peculiarly flattened, they compose the outer layer known as the skin or epidermis. Wood tissue consists of long tubes, tapering and closed at the ends, placed side by side, which form in woody plants what is known as wood proper. Bast tissue consists of long, flexible tubes, closed at both ends, and is mostly found in the liber or inner bark, constituting in hemp and flax the portion of those plants used in the manufacture of linen, ropes, etc. Vascular tissue consists of long tubes or vessels, formed of superposed cells the par- titions between which have been absorbed, and comprises what are variously called dotted ducts, spiral vessels, annular bands, etc. The chief organs of plants are four, viz.: i, Root; 2, stem; 3, Leaf; 4, Flower. Each of these is subdivided under different aspects and SlOOTS. IS OOTS are the parts by which the plant draws nourishment from the soil, and are sometimes supplied .with rootlets, holding about the same relation to them that they do to the plant. Roots are of six kinds: Fibrous, when composed of tufts of fibers with pores at their points, as in common grasses (i*); repent or creeping, as in the Couch-grass (2); fusiform, or spindle-shaped, as in the Carrot (3); premorse (as if bitten off) when the spindle-shape ends quite abruptly, as in the Plantain (4); tuberous, as in the Potato, where the root comprises one or more roundish, solid masses, fed by rootlets from the soil (5); bulbous, where the root is one round, solid mass, producing buds from the upper sur
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