. Botany for beginners : an introduction to Mrs. Lincoln's Lectures on botany : for the use of common schools and the younger pupils of higher schools and academies. Botany. J39. Tuberous roots, are hard, solid, and fleshy; they con- sist of knobs called tubers. Some have but one tuber, as the potato, which is shown at Fig. 16, a. In the artichoke, many tubers are strung together by fibreSj as at b. In a kind of plants called orchis, the root has two tubers, resembling the parts in- to which a bean may be divided, as at c. You will perceive that they all are furnished with radicles. The tuber
. Botany for beginners : an introduction to Mrs. Lincoln's Lectures on botany : for the use of common schools and the younger pupils of higher schools and academies. Botany. J39. Tuberous roots, are hard, solid, and fleshy; they con- sist of knobs called tubers. Some have but one tuber, as the potato, which is shown at Fig. 16, a. In the artichoke, many tubers are strung together by fibreSj as at b. In a kind of plants called orchis, the root has two tubers, resembling the parts in- to which a bean may be divided, as at c. You will perceive that they all are furnished with radicles. The tuber is a reser- voir for the nourishment collected by the radicles. Sucli roots are knobbed, as in the potato; oval, as in the orchisj abrupt, as in the plantain. 140. Granulated roots consist of little bulbs or tubers strung together by a thread-like radicle, as in Fig. 17. Fig. > V *-"" a -/ rt 139. What are tuberous roots 1 140. What are granulated roots?. 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 Phelps, Lincoln, Mrs. , 1793-1884. New York : F. J. Huntington, and Mason & Law
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