Text-book of botany, morphological and physiological . arsit were the bifurcations of a dichotomy. ^ Compare under Dicotyledons p. 554 ^ [On the buds developed on the leaves of Malaxis which exhibit a striking resemblance to theovules of Orchideae, see Dickie, Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xiv, pp. i and 180. Dr. Dickie considers thestructure of these buds to favour the theory that the ovule is homologiDUS to a bud, the nucleus-likebody of the bud corresponding to an axis. See also Henslow on Malaxis, Mag. Nat. Hist, , pp. 441. 442.—Ed.] MONOCOTYL EDONS. 5-15 Lilium hulbiferum are, on the o
Text-book of botany, morphological and physiological . arsit were the bifurcations of a dichotomy. ^ Compare under Dicotyledons p. 554 ^ [On the buds developed on the leaves of Malaxis which exhibit a striking resemblance to theovules of Orchideae, see Dickie, Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xiv, pp. i and 180. Dr. Dickie considers thestructure of these buds to favour the theory that the ovule is homologiDUS to a bud, the nucleus-likebody of the bud corresponding to an axis. See also Henslow on Malaxis, Mag. Nat. Hist, , pp. 441. 442.—Ed.] MONOCOTYL EDONS. 5-15 Lilium hulbiferum are, on the other hand, normal axillary shoots, and probablythe same is the case with those on the inflorescence of some species of buds are stated by Hofmeister to occur on the roots of Epipactisinicrophylla. The Leaves of Monocotyledons are seldom verticillate, though this occurs inthe foliage-leaves of Elodea and the bracts of Aiisma; they are very commonlyarranged alternately in two rows, as in Gramineae, Irideoe, Phormium, Clivia, Typha. Fig. 391.—The underground part of a floweringr plant of Colchictim autiottnale: A seen infiout and from without, kthe corni, s, x^ataphyllary leaves embracing the flower-stalk, luh its base from which proceed the roots w ; B longitudinalsection, A A a brown skin which envelopes all the underground parts of the plant, st the flower- and leaf-stalk of theprevious year which has died down, its swollen basal portion k only remaining as a reservoir of food-materials for thenew plant now m flower. The new plant is a lateral shoot from the base of the corm k, consisting of the axis from the baseof which proceed the roots -wt, and the middle part of which (/&) swells up in the next year into a corm, the old conn kdisappearing ; the axis bears the sheath-leaves s, s, s and the foliage-leaves /, / ; the flowers l>,b are placed in theaxils of the uppermost foliage-leaves, the axis itself terminating amongst the flowers. The foliage-kave
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