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rhizome and many other parts of plants although , is essentially the same, and even the flower stalk 

 with separate names. A potato has no great I of a strawberry is but the stolon or runner which 

 difference from a rhizome. It is shorter and j has become erect and floriferous, instead of lying 



thicker, that is about all. We call it a tuber but i on the ground and making a new_ plant instead of 



it is essentially a rhizome. The thread-like "root" , a crop of flowers at the apex. 



of the couch-grass, or the stolon of a strawberry I Studies such as these give a" great deal of interest 



