. Practical botany. Botany. Tig. 68. Propagation of the strawberry plant by runners A, the parent plant; B, the young plant; r, runner; 6, bract. Half natural size 77. Reproduction by offsets and similar branches. An offset is a lateral branch for vegetative reproduction, usually rather short, as seen in the cardinal flower and the houseleek. Some- times the offset ends in a leafy rosette; in any case the branch readily takes root and begins life as a new individual. A stolon is an ordinary branch which roots at or near the tip and so forms a new plant, as is often seen in the black raspberry.


. Practical botany. Botany. Tig. 68. Propagation of the strawberry plant by runners A, the parent plant; B, the young plant; r, runner; 6, bract. Half natural size 77. Reproduction by offsets and similar branches. An offset is a lateral branch for vegetative reproduction, usually rather short, as seen in the cardinal flower and the houseleek. Some- times the offset ends in a leafy rosette; in any case the branch readily takes root and begins life as a new individual. A stolon is an ordinary branch which roots at or near the tip and so forms a new plant, as is often seen in the black raspberry. A runner is a very slender stolon, leafless except near the tip, where it roots and grows into a new plant, as in the straw- berry (Fig. 68), the silverweed, and other cinquefoils.^ 1 The word runner is also used, for lack of a better term, for the slender underground steins shown in Fig. 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; Caldwell, Otis William, 1869- joint author. Boston, New York [etc. ] Ginn and company


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