CIIAITICR XIV 



IlAi;iT ()!• (;k()\VTI[ I\ PLANTS 



'\' readers have possibl)- iKjticcd that in 

 _sli^Bll»i the previous cliapters in\- aim has been 

 ^^^'{> to describe the \arious orj^^aiis of a 

 -• plant, and that I have tried to show- 

 not merely the botanical meaning of 

 the man\- differences in the organs of allied 

 species, but to point out also how these structures 

 are adapted to help the plant to multiph- itself 

 The object of this final chapter is to take a 

 more general \ iew of [)lant-life, and to give some 

 idea of the different habits of plants ; how in their 

 struggle to grow and reproduce themselves the\' 

 form such habits as tend to assist them in this 

 effort, and also how entirel)', in some cases, the\- 

 differ from our <.»rdinar)- conception of plant-growth. 



