. Essentials of botany. Botany; Botany. ECOLOGY OF LEAVES 123 So too with leaf-eating insects and snails, which consume great quantities of leaves. 143. Plants of Uneatable Texture. — "Whenever tender and juicy herbage is to be had, plants of hard and stringy- texture are left untouched. In pastures there grow such perennials as the bracken fern and the hardback of New England and the ironweed and vervains of the Central States, which are so harsh and woody that the hungriest browsing animal is rarely, if ever, seen to molest them. Still other plants, like the knot- grass and cinquefoil o
. Essentials of botany. Botany; Botany. ECOLOGY OF LEAVES 123 So too with leaf-eating insects and snails, which consume great quantities of leaves. 143. Plants of Uneatable Texture. — "Whenever tender and juicy herbage is to be had, plants of hard and stringy- texture are left untouched. In pastures there grow such perennials as the bracken fern and the hardback of New England and the ironweed and vervains of the Central States, which are so harsh and woody that the hungriest browsing animal is rarely, if ever, seen to molest them. Still other plants, like the knot- grass and cinquefoil of our dooryards,. 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. Boston, Ginn
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