CHAPTER IV 



ROOTS 



34. General character. In general, roots are organized 

 to work in the soil, but this is not true of all of them. The 

 soil roots, however, will be considered first, as being the 

 most common and as exhibiting most clearly the structure 



FIG. 68. Roots: .A , dandelion with tap-root; B. grass with cluster of fibrous roots. 



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