The First Lines of Botany Or Primer to the Linnaean System Being a Simplified
The First Lines of Botany Or Primer to the Linnaean System Being a Simplified
J S Forsyth
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Q. In what manner does the root of the plant procure nourishment for its growth and increase? A. In order to explain this, it will be neces- sary to shew the make and construction of the root, and as it were to anatomize the several parts appertaining to it, and then point out their uses : for this purpose choose two roots, viz. A root of wormwood (see fig. 2. ), and a horse radish root (see fig. 3. ), in each of which T represents the root cut transversely as it appears to the naked eye. The o...ther great quadrantal figures are each a quarter of the aforesaid sec- tion T, magnified by a microscope, which thus enlarged, shews the various organical parts of which it is composed, and by which vegetation is performed. Q. Have the goodness to describe the different appearances of those magnified sections, A. [. Ab is the skin or rind, or outward mem- brane including the root. 66 THE FIRST LINES OF BOTANY. 2. From A to C in the wormioood root is the bark, which is a membranous substance, con- sisting partly of a great number of little blad- ders, or vesicles, B BB ; the same as represented by A B in the horse-radish root.
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