. Botany of the living plant. Botany. 304 ROTANY OF THE LIVING PLANT attachment of the mature tree, which is often shallow-rooted. Some of them, as in the Scots Pine, are mj'corhizic, the roots being invested by a fungal felt, which acts as an intermediary between the root and. Fro. ^46. Branch-end of Pinus Laiiclo, \ai". , beaiing laterally two shoots of un- limited growth, and a cone replacing a third one. Each is covered by numerous " foliage spurs " bearing two " ; .'\t the base of the figure these are fully developed ; above they are half-growm,
. Botany of the living plant. Botany. 304 ROTANY OF THE LIVING PLANT attachment of the mature tree, which is often shallow-rooted. Some of them, as in the Scots Pine, are mj'corhizic, the roots being invested by a fungal felt, which acts as an intermediary between the root and. Fro. ^46. Branch-end of Pinus Laiiclo, \ai". , beaiing laterally two shoots of un- limited growth, and a cone replacing a third one. Each is covered by numerous " foliage spurs " bearing two " ; .'\t the base of the figure these are fully developed ; above they are half-growm, the shoot having been cut in spring. Two young female cones ($) at the distal curl, arc at the period of pollination, (.\fter Groom.) the soil (p. 195). But as seedlings can be raised in pure cultures with- out the fungus, its presence, however advantageous, is not necessary. The external characters of the Coniferae thus briefly sketched stamp the appearance of most of them. The general plan of their Plant-Body or sporophyte i,^ the same as that seen in 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 Bower, F. O. (Frederick Orpen), 1855-1948. London, Macmillan and co. , limited
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