. Botany, an elementary text for schools. Botany. HOW PLANTS ARE MODIFIED. 15. Woody or ligneous plants are usually longer lived than herbs. Those which remain low and produce several or many similar shoots from the base are called shrubs, as lilac, rose, elder, osier. Fig. 5. Low and thick shrubs are bushes. Plants which produce one main trunk and a more or less elevated head are trees. Fig. 6. IG. PLANTS ARE MODIFIED BY THE CONDITIONS IN WHICH THEY GROW.âIn most i)lants, the size, form and gt'Hcral ai)pearance vary or change with the conditions in irltich the plant grows. That is, ^ , there
. Botany, an elementary text for schools. Botany. HOW PLANTS ARE MODIFIED. 15. Woody or ligneous plants are usually longer lived than herbs. Those which remain low and produce several or many similar shoots from the base are called shrubs, as lilac, rose, elder, osier. Fig. 5. Low and thick shrubs are bushes. Plants which produce one main trunk and a more or less elevated head are trees. Fig. 6. IG. PLANTS ARE MODIFIED BY THE CONDITIONS IN WHICH THEY GROW.âIn most i)lants, the size, form and gt'Hcral ai)pearance vary or change with the conditions in irltich the plant grows. That is, ^ , there is no uniform or necessary form into which i)lants shall grow. No two plants are exactly alike. â > under whicli they gi-ow. 17. No two parts of the same plant are exactly alike. No two ^â 'f\':'i(4-f-^-^'<t'fr^,^y parts grow in the same conditions, ),:\ f^^^^^{'*â â â¢''^hA?. for one is nearer the main stem, one nearer the light, ;iiid another lias more room. Try to find two leaves or two branches on tiie same plant wliieli are exactly jilike. Fig. 7. IS. Fvei'y ])l;uit makes an elT(»i't t jiropdi/tili' or t per //(finite its l;'ni(l: iind .'is t';ii' ;is \\r ean see. tliis is tlie end for wlii<-li the plant itself lives. The seed or spore is the final product of the plant. 1!). Kver.\- plant,â .â ind e\ery \\\\v\ of ;i |il;int,â nndei-- goes \ ieissit ndes. it lias to adapt itself to the condi- tions in which it lives, it (-(tntends for place in whiidi to 'â ^^^ }\% &i'^- The weeping 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 Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954. New York Macmillan
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