. Beginners' botany. Botany. THE STRUGGLE TO LIVE 5 The plant meets its conditions by succumbing to them (that is, by dying), or by adapting itself to them. The tree meets the cold by ceasing its active growth, hardening its tissues, dropping its leaves. Many her- baceous or soft-stemmed plants meet the cold by dying to the ground and withdrawing all life into the root parts. Some plants meet the cold by dying outright and provid- ing abundance of seeds to perpetuate the kind next Fig. 4. —The Reach for Light of a Tree on the Edge of a Wood. Plants adapt themselves to light by growing
. Beginners' botany. Botany. THE STRUGGLE TO LIVE 5 The plant meets its conditions by succumbing to them (that is, by dying), or by adapting itself to them. The tree meets the cold by ceasing its active growth, hardening its tissues, dropping its leaves. Many her- baceous or soft-stemmed plants meet the cold by dying to the ground and withdrawing all life into the root parts. Some plants meet the cold by dying outright and provid- ing abundance of seeds to perpetuate the kind next Fig. 4. —The Reach for Light of a Tree on the Edge of a Wood. Plants adapt themselves to light by growing toward it (Fig. 4); or by hanging their leaves in such position that they catch the light; or, in less sunny places, by expand- ing their leaf surface, or by greatly lengthening their stems so as to overtop their fellows, as do trees and vines. The adaptations of plants will afford a fertile field of study as we 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 Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954. New York, The Macmillan company
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