. Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany. With a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany. 0 HOW PLANTS GROW YEAR AFTER YEAR. witliering awav, which grew in spring by one of its buds to make the stem (h) bear- ing tlie foliage of the season. This sends oat some branches under ground, v/hich GO in the course of the sea- son thicken at the end as they receive a stock of nourisliment prepared by this year's foliage, and become new tubers (r, a forming one; d, d, Avell-grown
. Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany. With a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany. 0 HOW PLANTS GROW YEAR AFTER YEAR. witliering awav, which grew in spring by one of its buds to make the stem (h) bear- ing tlie foliage of the season. This sends oat some branches under ground, v/hich GO in the course of the sea- son thicken at the end as they receive a stock of nourisliment prepared by this year's foliage, and become new tubers (r, a forming one; d, d, Avell-grown tubers of the season), to live over winter and make the next year's growth. 75. Because they live under ground, these tu- bers are commonly su[>- posed to be roots; but they are not, as any one may see. Their eyes are buds; and the little scales behind the eves answer to leaves ; while roots bear neither buds nor leaves. The fibrous roots which grow from these subterranean branches are xcry different in appearance from under-ground stems, as is plain to see in the l^o!^ato-plant. Fig. CO shows a few of the real roots, as v,(,'il as several branches of the stem, with potatoes form- ing in all stages at their tips. Fifr. CI is one of these form- ing potatoes magnified, show- ing a little scale behind each eye which answers to a leaf. Fig. C2 is a part of a slice through an eye, more magnified, to show that the eye is really a bud, covered with little 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 Gray, Asa, 1810-1888. New York : Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman & Co
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