. Elements of botany. Botany; Botany. 208 ELEMENTS OF BOTANY. Beside the pasture plants above mentioned there grow such others as the bulrushes and hardback of New England and the ironweed and vervains of the Middle States, which are so harsh and woody that the hungriest browsing animal is rarely, if ever, seen to molest them. Still other plants, like the knotgrass and cinquefoil of our dooryards, are doubly safe, from their growing so close to the ground as to be hard to graze and from their woody and unpalatable nature. 250. The, Weapons of Plants} — Multitudes of plants which might otherwis

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. Elements of botany. Botany; Botany. 208 ELEMENTS OF BOTANY. Beside the pasture plants above mentioned there grow such others as the bulrushes and hardback of New England and the ironweed and vervains of the Middle States, which are so harsh and woody that the hungriest browsing animal is rarely, if ever, seen to molest them. Still other plants, like the knotgrass and cinquefoil of our dooryards, are doubly safe, from their growing so close to the ground as to be hard to graze and from their woody and unpalatable nature. 250. The, Weapons of Plants} — Multitudes of plants which might otherwise have been subject to the attacks of. 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 Bergen, Joseph Y. (Joseph Young), 1851-1917. Boston, Ginn

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