. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. Fig. 426. American mistletoe growingon a walnut branch. Pio. 427. Attachment of the mistletoe to its host. 408 ZESSOJVS WITS PLANTS reaches from side to side for a host. Findingnone, it finally dies; but rank weeds and bushes. Fict. 428. A plant in the graspof dodder. are usually abundant in the moist places in whichit grows. 516. The Indian pipe or corpse-plant () is frequent in woods. It is wholly destituteof leaf-green and must, therefore, be either a para- EPIPHTTES, PABASITES AND
. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. Fig. 426. American mistletoe growingon a walnut branch. Pio. 427. Attachment of the mistletoe to its host. 408 ZESSOJVS WITS PLANTS reaches from side to side for a host. Findingnone, it finally dies; but rank weeds and bushes. Fict. 428. A plant in the graspof dodder. are usually abundant in the moist places in whichit grows. 516. The Indian pipe or corpse-plant () is frequent in woods. It is wholly destituteof leaf-green and must, therefore, be either a para- EPIPHTTES, PABASITES AND SAPBOPHTTES 409 site or saprophyte. It is probable that it isboth, deriving some of its nourishment from theroots of living trees, andalso some of it fromthe decaying are several leaf-less and non-chlorophyl-lous plants growing upon \\,the ground in woods in ^this country, living much \\as the Indian pipe of them are or-chids; others are knownas beech-drops, becauseoccurring in beech woods;another is the remark-able snow-plant or sar-codes of the are, also, quite anumber of green andleafy herbs which arepartially parasitic uponroots, and which theuninformed observer would never suspect of such habits. 517, The lichen, or moss, which grows upontrees derives its nourishment from the
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