. Wayside weeds, or, Botanical lessons from the lanes and hedgerows : with a chapter on classification . Botany; Wild flowers. 146 WAYSIDB WEEDS. perennial; they are simple and branched, and their structure is very similar to the stem. Many roots, as those of the grasses, composed solely of fibres, are fibrous roots. We will not give you an illustration, for you have only to pull up the first tuft of grass you see to get one. Other roots have, in addition to their fibres, their caudex, or root-stem, which. Fig. 92.—Boot of Early Purple Orchia: a, eshauated tuber ; 6, fresh tuber; c, fibres of
. Wayside weeds, or, Botanical lessons from the lanes and hedgerows : with a chapter on classification . Botany; Wild flowers. 146 WAYSIDB WEEDS. perennial; they are simple and branched, and their structure is very similar to the stem. Many roots, as those of the grasses, composed solely of fibres, are fibrous roots. We will not give you an illustration, for you have only to pull up the first tuft of grass you see to get one. Other roots have, in addition to their fibres, their caudex, or root-stem, which. Fig. 92.—Boot of Early Purple Orchia: a, eshauated tuber ; 6, fresh tuber; c, fibres of root. may be simple, or branched, or fleshy. Fig. 91, which is the root of one of the sedges, shows a main root-stem, partly branched, from which the rootlets proceed. Fleshy roots, such as the carrot, parsnip, turnip, and radish, have their rootlets attached to the central fleshy caiJflex, chiefly at the. 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 Thomson, Spencer, fl. 1848-1883. London : Groombridge
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