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Title: Botany for beginners: an introduction to Mrs. Lincoln's Lectures on botany
Identifier: botanyforbeginn00phel (find matches)
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Phelps, Lincoln, Mrs. , 1793-1884
Subjects: Plants
Publisher: New York, Huntington & Savage
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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139. Tuberous roots, are hard, solid, and fleshy; they con- sist of knobs called tubers. Some have but one tuber, as the potato, which is shown at Fig. 16, a. In the artichoke, many tubers are strung together by fibres, as at b. In a kind of plants called orchis, the root has two tubers, resembling the parts in- to which a bean may be divided, as at c. You will perceive that they all are furnished with radicles. The tuber is a reser- voir for the nourishment collected by the radicles. Such roots are knobbed, as in the potato^, oval, as in the orchis; abrupt, as in the plantain. 140. Granulated roots consist of little bulbs or tubers strung together by a thread-like radicle, as in Fig. 17. Fig. 17.
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139. What are tuberous roots'? 140. What are granulated roots ?

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