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GLIMPSES INTO PLANT-LIFE 



a tuber. The onion is like a large bud growing 

 underground, instead of on a tree branch. We can 

 prove how similar the onion and the bud are, by 

 searching on a lil\- stem for buds or bulbils, which 



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are often produced in the axils of the leaves; if we 

 plant such a bud it will throw out fibres and become 

 a bulbous-rooted plant. Some of our native grasses 

 seem to have a singular power of adapting them- 



