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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP. II. GROWTH BY THE ROOT. Roots lengthen at their Points only. ? Absorb at that Part chiefly. ? Increase in Diameter like Stems. ? Their Origin. ? Are feeding Organs. ? Without much Power of selecting their Food. ? Nature of the latter. ? May be poisoned. ? Are constantly in Action. ? Sometimes poison the Soil in which they grow. ? Have no Buds. ? But may generate them. 19. The root, being the organ through which food is conveyed from the earth into the plant, is the part which is the soonest developed. Even in the embryo, at the earliest commencement of germination, it is the part immediately connected with the root that first begins to move, by lengthening all its parts, and protruding itself beyond the seed- coats into the earth. 20. But as soon as this primitive lengthening of the root has taken place, and the upper part of the embryo, namely, the young stem, has begun to exist as a separate organ, the root changes its pro-. perty, ceases to grow by a general distension of its tissue, and simply increases in length by the addition of new matter to its point. A root is therefore extended much in the same way as an icicle, by the constant superposition of layer over layer to its youngest extremity, with this difference, however, that an icicle is augmented by the addition of matter from without, while the root lengthens by the perpetual creation of new matter from within. 21. For this reason, the extreme points of the roots are exceedingly delicate, and are injured by very trifling causes; they, moreover, as all newly formed vegetable matter is extremely hygrome- trical, have the power of absorbing, with rapidity, any fluid or gaseous matter that may be presented to them. On this account they are usually called spongelets. 22. In the roots of ordinary ex...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217300094
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 86
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 021730009X
  • Publisher Date: 10 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 168 gr


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