. Flowers and their pedigrees [microform]. Flowers; Flowers; Fleurs; Fleurs. 154 Flowers and their Pedigrees. more important, as indicating- an approach to the essentially one-seeded grass tribe, they have only three seeds in the flower, one to each cell of the capsule. These seeds are comparatively large, and are richly stored with food-stuffs for the supply of the young plantlct. One such richly supplied embryo is worth many little unsupported grains, since it stands a much better chance than they do of surviv-. FiG. 35.—Single flower of Woodrush. ing in the struggle for existence. The wood-
. Flowers and their pedigrees [microform]. Flowers; Flowers; Fleurs; Fleurs. 154 Flowers and their Pedigrees. more important, as indicating- an approach to the essentially one-seeded grass tribe, they have only three seeds in the flower, one to each cell of the capsule. These seeds are comparatively large, and are richly stored with food-stuffs for the supply of the young plantlct. One such richly supplied embryo is worth many little unsupported grains, since it stands a much better chance than they do of surviv-. FiG. 35.—Single flower of Woodrush. ing in the struggle for existence. The wood-rushes may thus be regarded as some of the earliest plants among the great trinary class to adopt those tactics of storing gluten, starch, and other food-stuffs along with the embryo, which have given the cereals their acknowledged superiority as producers of human food. They are closely connected with the rushes, on the one hand, by sundry intermediate species which possess thin leaves instead of cylindrical pithy blades ;. 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 Allen, Grant, 1848-1899. New York : D. Appleton
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