. Flowers and their pedigrees [microform]. Flowers; Flowers; Fleurs; Fleurs. I 12 Floivers and t/icir Pcdio-rees. c3 That is why the goose-grass and the other stellate weeds have foliage of this minute character, instead of broad blades like the two seed leaves. But all plants of tangly growth do not attain their end in precisely the same manner. Sometimes one plan succeeds best and sometimes another. In most cases the originally round and simple leaf gets split up by gradual steps into several smaller leaflets. In the stellate tribe, however, the same object is provided for in a widely differ
. Flowers and their pedigrees [microform]. Flowers; Flowers; Fleurs; Fleurs. I 12 Floivers and t/icir Pcdio-rees. c3 That is why the goose-grass and the other stellate weeds have foliage of this minute character, instead of broad blades like the two seed leaves. But all plants of tangly growth do not attain their end in precisely the same manner. Sometimes one plan succeeds best and sometimes another. In most cases the originally round and simple leaf gets split up by gradual steps into several smaller leaflets. In the stellate tribe, however, the same object is provided for in a widely different fashion. Instead of the primitive leaf dividing into numerous leaflets, a num- ber of organs which were not originally leaves grow into exact structural and functional resemblance to those which were. Strictly speaking, in this whorl of six little lance-shaped blades, precisely similar to one another, only two op- posite ones are true leaves ; the other four are in fact, to use a very technical term, interpetiolar stipules. A stipule, you know, of course, is a little fringe or tag which often appears at the point where the leaf stalk joins the stem, and its chief use seems to be to prevent ants and other. Fig. 25. Interpetiolar Stipu' 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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