Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany (1858)
Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 · New York, American Book Company · leaf 26
18 HOW PLANTS GROW FROM THE SEED, 41. The seed-leaves of the Bean are thickened by having so much nourishment stored up in them, so much of it that they make good food for men. And the object of this large supply is that the plant may grow more strongly and rapidly from the seed. It need not and it… … very short radicle, or stemlet, which is seen at the lower end. Pull off one of the seed-leaves, as in Fig. 37, and you may see the plumule or little bud, p , ready to develop leaves and stem upwards, while the other end of the radicle grows downward and makes the root; the rich store of…
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