LEAVES: MODIFICATIONS 



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Certain insects which enter the leaf 

 from crawling out by these hairs, 

 they fall into the water at the 

 pitcher and die. 



151. Reduction of leaves to 

 on the flower shoot. Reduced 

 flower shoot are often green, small 

 the bell flower, marigold, etc. These 

 bracts. On some flower shoots the 

 bracts are broad and colored like 

 the petals of some flowers as in the 

 flowering dogwood. Bracts of the 

 flower shoot are sometimes termed 

 sc. les when they are more or less rigid and thickened, as in the 

 heads of some composites. The thickened bases of the scales 

 on the flower head of the " artichoke " (Cyanara Scolymus) are 

 edible. 



are prevented 

 and after a while 

 bottom of the 



bracts or scales 



leaves on the 

 and thin, as in 

 are termed 



Fig. 79- 

 Leaf of pitcher plant (Sarracenia). 



