DEPENDENT PLANTS 



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with a perfect lemon and keep them where they will be moist. 

 What happens to the sound fruits? 



The plants that we have so far studied are green plants 

 and contain chlorophyll. They are able to prepare their 

 food from the air and soil by the aid of the sun's energy. 

 There is, however, another great group of plants which 

 may be called dependent plants. They have no chlorophyll 



MISTLETOE GROWING ON AN OAK 

 An interesting parasitic plant. 



and are obliged to live upon the food that green plants have 

 prepared. They find this food either in the living or in the 

 dead parts of plants or animals, the animals having digested 

 it from plants or other animals, who originally obtained it 

 from plants. If plants live upon living plants or animals, 

 they are called parasites, if upon dead ones, saprophytes. 

 We are most of us familiar with some of the larger de- 



