. The natural history of plants, their forms, growth, reproduction, and distribution;. Botany. OFFSHOOTS ON EUNNERS. 801 Everyone knows the long runners of the Strawberry plant (Fragaria vesca). Here buds arise at the intermediate nodes as well as at the tip of the runner, and these develop into new plants after the thread-like connecting portions have perished. Suppose a Strawberry stock sends out three runners during the summer; each takes root at 5 nodes, and from each node a bud, an offshoot, develops, so that the following year the mother-stock is surrounded by fifteen daughter-plant
. The natural history of plants, their forms, growth, reproduction, and distribution;. Botany. OFFSHOOTS ON EUNNERS. 801 Everyone knows the long runners of the Strawberry plant (Fragaria vesca). Here buds arise at the intermediate nodes as well as at the tip of the runner, and these develop into new plants after the thread-like connecting portions have perished. Suppose a Strawberry stock sends out three runners during the summer; each takes root at 5 nodes, and from each node a bud, an offshoot, develops, so that the following year the mother-stock is surrounded by fifteen daughter-plants. It should be noted that the length of the internodes in each runner is unequal. For Fig. 446. -Formation of a clustered colony by means of aerial runners in Saxifraga MieUaris. in one which had extended over the ground in the shade of the wood, the first mter- node was 37, the second 34, the third 31, the fourth 30, and the fifth and last 22 cm • thus the offshoots were the closer together the greater their distance from the mother-plant. Next summer fifteen new offshoots were again formed from each of the original fifteen, arranged in exactly the same way, and in the forest- glade where two years previously there had been only a single Strawberry plant occupying a space of 50 sq. cm., there would now be 200 plants distributed over a space of about 3600 sq. cm. The lesser Spearwort (Ranv^nculus reptans), the Ground Ivy {Glechonm hederacea), and the creeping Cinquefoil reptans) display^quite as VOL. 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 Kerner von Marilaun, Anton, 1831-1898; Oliver, F. W. (Francis Wall), 1864-1951; Busk, Marian (Balfour) Lady, 1861-1941; Macdonald, Mary Frances (Ewart); Kerner von Marilaun, Anton, 1831-1898. Pflanzenleben. English. New York, H. Holt an
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