. A text-book of botany for secondary schools. Botany. 60 A TEXT-BOOK OF BOTANY (1) Cladophylls.—If the greenhouse smilax, often called wedding smilax, be examined, the apparent leaves will be discovered to be branches modified so as to assume the form and work of leaves, each one of these leaf-like branches standing in the axil of a minute scale-like leaf (Fig. 58, A). Such branches are called cladophylls, which means " leaf-like. Fig. 58.—Cladophylls: -1, wedding (the apparent leaves are the modified branches, and the real leaves are the minute scales that subtend them); B, Phyl
. A text-book of botany for secondary schools. Botany. 60 A TEXT-BOOK OF BOTANY (1) Cladophylls.—If the greenhouse smilax, often called wedding smilax, be examined, the apparent leaves will be discovered to be branches modified so as to assume the form and work of leaves, each one of these leaf-like branches standing in the axil of a minute scale-like leaf (Fig. 58, A). Such branches are called cladophylls, which means " leaf-like. Fig. 58.—Cladophylls: -1, wedding (the apparent leaves are the modified branches, and the real leaves are the minute scales that subtend them); B, Phyllocladus. ; In the Australian region a group of evergreens is characterized by bearing cladophylls; and the young plantlet shows the gradual change of true green leaves into little scales, and of branches into cladophylls (Fig. 58, B). In the common garden asparagus the apparent slender, needle-like leaves are all cladophylls doing lea work. (2) Tendrils.—It was shown (§ 20) that leaves or parts of leaves may develop as tendrils, and this is true also of. 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 Coulter, John Merle, 1851-1928. New York, D. Appleton
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