. A class-book of botany, designed for colleges, academies, and other seminaries ... Illustrated by a flora of the northern, middle, and western states; particularly of the United States north of the Capitol, lat. 38 3/4. Botany; Plants -- United States; Plants -- Canada. 76 um: «tem. b. In regard to dm-atioti^4rees differ much, some attaining tlieir growth in a few yeaj-s and immediately decaying, while on the contraiy, the ordinary age of trees is beyond the age of man, and some outlive many generations, as the oak, pine^^ 190. The sucKER/fs a branch proceeding from the stem, or root, beneat
. A class-book of botany, designed for colleges, academies, and other seminaries ... Illustrated by a flora of the northern, middle, and western states; particularly of the United States north of the Capitol, lat. 38 3/4. Botany; Plants -- United States; Plants -- Canada. 76 um: «tem. b. In regard to dm-atioti^4rees differ much, some attaining tlieir growth in a few yeaj-s and immediately decaying, while on the contraiy, the ordinary age of trees is beyond the age of man, and some outlive many generations, as the oak, pine^^ 190. The sucKER/fs a branch proceeding from the stem, or root, beneath the surface, producing leaves, &c., and throwing out roots from its own base, becoming an independent plant. Ex. rose, raspberry. 191. An OFFSET ('is a short, lateral branch, terminated by a cluster of leaves, and capable of taking root when separated from the parent plant. Ex. house-leek; (Sempei-vivum). 192. A STOLON'Is a branch which proceeds from an elevated part of the stem, and afterwards, descending to the earth, takes root, sends up new shoots, and finally becomes a new plant. It differs from the sucker, ill originating above the ground and not below it.:. FIG. 24. —Forms of the stem ; 1, Fragaria; 2, Vitis ; ft, tendrils ; 3, cirrhose leaf of Pisum; 4, Pyrola; 5, sucker. 193. A 2^hiraUttj of stems, or tranks/'is observed in a few spe- cies of trees grooving in tropical regions. The Banyan {Ficus * It is recorded that a live oak, in Louisiana, lived 1000 years ; a sycamore in Palestine, 1050 years ; a pine in Asia Minor, 1800 years ; a cedar on Mt. Lebanon, 2120 years, and tho great chestnut on Wt. Etna, 2000 years. It is also supposed that there are yet living, in the " garden of Gethsemane," some of the olives which wimessed our Saviour's passion; and at Terni, Italy, is an olive plantation supposed to have existed since the age of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for
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