. Beginners' botany. Botany. CHAPTER XIV DEPENDENT PLANTS Thus far we have spoken of plants with roots and foliage and that depend on themselves. They collect the raw materials and make them over into assimilable food. They are independent Plants without green foliage can- not make food; they must have it made for them or they die. They are dependent. A sprout from a potato tuber in a dark cellar cannot collect and elab- orate carbon dioxid. It lives on the food stored in the tuber. All plants with natu- rally white or blanched parts are dependent. Their leaves do not develop. They live on org
. Beginners' botany. Botany. CHAPTER XIV DEPENDENT PLANTS Thus far we have spoken of plants with roots and foliage and that depend on themselves. They collect the raw materials and make them over into assimilable food. They are independent Plants without green foliage can- not make food; they must have it made for them or they die. They are dependent. A sprout from a potato tuber in a dark cellar cannot collect and elab- orate carbon dioxid. It lives on the food stored in the tuber. All plants with natu- rally white or blanched parts are dependent. Their leaves do not develop. They live on organic matter — that which has been made by a plant or elaborated by an animal. The dodder, Indian pipe, beech drop, coral root among flower-bearing plants, also mushrooms and other fungi (Figs. 131, 132) are exam- ples. The dodder is common in swales, being conspicuous late in the season from its thread-like yellow or orange stems spreading over the herbage of other plants. One kind attacks alfalfa and is a bad pest. The seeds germi- nate in the spring, but as soon as the twining stem at- 106. Fig. 131. — A Mushroom, example of a sapro- phytic plant. This is the edible cultivated 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. New York, The Macmillan company
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