. The classification of flowering plants. Plants. LORANTHACEAE 67 is sjnnpodial and may form a dichasium as in iVIistletoe (Viscum) where each successive axis bears a pair of persistent green leaves, the growth being continued next season by the lateral buds, while the terminal bud produces the short in- florescence. The leaves are simple and entire, frequently thick and leathery and long persistent; stipules are absent. In germination the hypocotyl grows out from the end of the seed, which has become attached to the branch of its. Fig. 25. Psittamnthus claviceps. A. Portion of shoot wath infl
. The classification of flowering plants. Plants. LORANTHACEAE 67 is sjnnpodial and may form a dichasium as in iVIistletoe (Viscum) where each successive axis bears a pair of persistent green leaves, the growth being continued next season by the lateral buds, while the terminal bud produces the short in- florescence. The leaves are simple and entire, frequently thick and leathery and long persistent; stipules are absent. In germination the hypocotyl grows out from the end of the seed, which has become attached to the branch of its. Fig. 25. Psittamnthus claviceps. A. Portion of shoot wath inflorescence. B. Flower in longitudinal section. C. Fruit. D. Fruit and seed cut lengthwise shewing the embryo wdth its large cotj'ledons filling the seed. E. Fruit cut across, c, calyculus. host by its viscid covering, and curving downwards fixes it« swollen sucker-Hke ends to the branch (fig. 27, H). The rest of the embryo-axis bearing the small cotyledons, which have now absorbed the endosperm, is then draA\Ti out from the seed-coat and the embryo stands erect; the first pairs of leaves of the plumule are small and transitory, the energy of the plant being devoted to producing the haustorium (root) which grows from the centre of the attaching sucker, penetrates the bark and reaches the vascular tissue of 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 Rendle, A. B. (Alfred Barton), 1865-1938. Cambridge, University press
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