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 44
whitish stems, looking like threads of yarn. These coil round the stalks of other plants, fasten themselves by little suckers in place of roots, and feed upon their juices. Living as such a plant does by robbing other plants of their prepared food, it has no leaves of its own, except little scales… … 7L, Carrot. are several or many of about the same size ; as in Indian Corn (Fig. 48), and other jgrain (Fig. 56). Here the clustered roots are fibrous , being for absorbing only. When such roots, or some of them, are thick and fleshy, as they are when used as storehouses of food, they become…
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