. Outlines of plant life : with special reference to form and function . Botany. 2l6 OUTLINES OF PLANT LIFE. parent into nearly equal parts, each of which then continues to grow. In most plants the bodies separated are small or minute, compared with the parent. They are either spores. ^ Fig. 1S4.—a seedling potato plant, cis the base of thestenj, below which is the primary root, r. The primary leaves c^, are still present. The early leaves, yi are not so much branched as later ones will be. In the axils of the lower leaves arise the branches b^ with scale leaves, e'c, and secondary roots, >
. Outlines of plant life : with special reference to form and function . Botany. 2l6 OUTLINES OF PLANT LIFE. parent into nearly equal parts, each of which then continues to grow. In most plants the bodies separated are small or minute, compared with the parent. They are either spores. ^ Fig. 1S4.—a seedling potato plant, cis the base of thestenj, below which is the primary root, r. The primary leaves c^, are still present. The early leaves, yi are not so much branched as later ones will be. In the axils of the lower leaves arise the branches b^ with scale leaves, e'c, and secondary roots, >-'. The tips of these branches, when illuminated, bear foHage leaves, y^'; but usually they thicken into tubers, tb^ which have scale leaves, e'c', m whose axils buds, br-, are formed, the so-called " eyes " of the tuber. Natural size.—After Duchartre. or brood buds. Spores of water plants are often motile ; those of some water plants and most land plants are not, but must be distributed by winds, water, or animals. The spores are formed singly or in chains at the tips of special. 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 Barnes, Charles Reid, 1858-1910. New York : Henry Holt and Company
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