. Plants and their ways in South Africa. Botany; Botany. /hich lives on dead or decaying matter. Mushrooms, yeast plants, the mould on bread and cheese, and some bacteria are examples. Sa- prophytes are very useful members of plant society. Mushrooms change decaying vegetable matter into whole- some food. When insects or Fig. 84.—A piece rif a braneh of an apple tree cut through lengthwise, into which a young mistletoe-plant ha-s driven its sucking loots (re- duced). (From Thom^ and Bennett's " Structural and Physiological Botany".}. i^'lfj. 85.—.SWr(VJ/i/;i'/('.w;//;'7^///f^/ (ordi^
. Plants and their ways in South Africa. Botany; Botany. /hich lives on dead or decaying matter. Mushrooms, yeast plants, the mould on bread and cheese, and some bacteria are examples. Sa- prophytes are very useful members of plant society. Mushrooms change decaying vegetable matter into whole- some food. When insects or Fig. 84.—A piece rif a braneh of an apple tree cut through lengthwise, into which a young mistletoe-plant ha-s driven its sucking loots (re- duced). (From Thom^ and Bennett's " Structural and Physiological Botany".}. i^'lfj. 85.—.SWr(VJ/i/;i'/('.w;//;'7^///f^/ (ordi^r Balauophoracet^), a patasilc grow- ing on the roots of ICkebcrgia and Acacia in the Eastern Province. I. Pistil- late, n. Staniinate fiower. animals die, or leaves fall, there would be a great accumula- tion of useless matter were it not for the saprophytes, which seize upon tliis decaying matter and make it ready to be used. 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 Stoneman, Bertha. London, New York, Longmans, Green
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