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VARIOUS FOOD-PLANTS 
41.—Beet. 
foot Family, Chenopodiacee). 
showing the appearance of the parts 
above ground at the end of its first 
(Beta vulgaris, Goose- 
Plant 
year. X 4. (Original).—The leaves 
are smooth, green or more or less 
tinged with red; stem scarcely more 
than a ‘“‘crown”’ covering the top of 
the swollen root which projects some- 
what above the ground. 
A plant in its second 
year, the underground parts cut ver- 
tically, to show the swollen root which 
is feeding with its store of nutriment 
the crown, which has given rise to 
several erect branches bearing leaves, 
flowers and fruit. (Original).—Plant, 
a biennial, i. e., requiring two years 
to complete its life, the first year 
storing up food which during the 
second year it uses to build flower- 
and fruit-bearing shoots; stem- 
branches, commonly deep red; flow- 
ers, greenish; fruit, dry, rough, and 
brown. 
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