. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. Fig. shoot of Norway maple. 52 ZESSOJfS WITH PLANTS gradations from the one to the other. There isanother method of determining if this conclusion issound. We have already found that leaves bear definite relations tobuds, and, there-fore, to the shoots(whether of leavesor of flowers) whichspring from thebuds. Fig. 52 is thewell known terminalbud of the rhodo-dendron. If thepupil has the oppor-tunity, he should ex-amine the flowercluster of this plantor of one of thelarge-bud azal
. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. Fig. shoot of Norway maple. 52 ZESSOJfS WITH PLANTS gradations from the one to the other. There isanother method of determining if this conclusion issound. We have already found that leaves bear definite relations tobuds, and, there-fore, to the shoots(whether of leavesor of flowers) whichspring from thebuds. Fig. 52 is thewell known terminalbud of the rhodo-dendron. If thepupil has the oppor-tunity, he should ex-amine the flowercluster of this plantor of one of thelarge-bud will find a flower *springing from theaxil of each bud-scale. He will read-ily guess the significance of this are two direct methods of determining themorphology of any part,—by the evidences of itsform, and by its position with reference toother parts; and to these may be added a third. Fig. shoot of black currant. THE OPENING OF THE BUDS, CONTINUED 53 method,— that of homology, or the comparison withstructures in other plants which give evidence ofhaving had a similar origin. •
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