. Beginners botany. Botany. PLANT SOCIETIES II called colonies. Colonies of most plants are transient: after a short time other plants gain a foothold amongst them, and an intermingled society is the outcome. Marked exceptions to this are grass colonies and forest colonies, in which one kind of plant may hold its own for years and centuries. In a large newly cleared area, plants ws\xzS\^ first estab- lish themselves hi dense colonies. Note the great patches. Fig. 9. — A Mid-region Society. of nettles, jewel-weeds, smart-weeds, clot-burs, fire-weeds in recently cleared but neglected swales, als
. Beginners botany. Botany. PLANT SOCIETIES II called colonies. Colonies of most plants are transient: after a short time other plants gain a foothold amongst them, and an intermingled society is the outcome. Marked exceptions to this are grass colonies and forest colonies, in which one kind of plant may hold its own for years and centuries. In a large newly cleared area, plants ws\xzS\^ first estab- lish themselves hi dense colonies. Note the great patches. Fig. 9. — A Mid-region Society. of nettles, jewel-weeds, smart-weeds, clot-burs, fire-weeds in recently cleared but neglected swales, also the fire-weeds in recently burned areas, the rank weeds in the neglected garden, and the ragweeds and May-weeds along the re- cently worked highway. The competition amongst them- selves and with their neighbours finally breaks up the colonies, and a mixed mid intermingled flora is generally the result. In many parts of the world the general tendency ofineg- lected areas is to run into forest. All plants rush for 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 Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954. Toronto : Macmillan
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