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applies to Dandelions or Plantains. The natural 

 adventive buds appear on definite parts of the plant, 

 according to the species ; in accidental adventive buds 

 the place of origin depends on that of the injury. 





Fig. 21. Achimenes Haagkaxa. showing development of a new 

 flowering plant consisting of root and flowering-shoot. 



Adventitive shoots may arise, like normal shoots, 

 exogenously ; but endogenous development generally 

 occurs when they arise from older parts of stems or 

 roots. In some cases they are formed by the direct con- 

 version of the growing-point of a root, as in Bird's Nest 

 Orchid (Neottia Nidus-Avis), Catasetivm bridenkitwn, &c. 



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