CHAPTER VI 



FOOD RESERVOIRS 



74. STOREHOUSES. All greatly thickened or congested 

 parts are reservoirs for the storage of plant-food. This 

 food i.s mostly starch. Potatoes, beets, turnips, thick 

 rhizomes, seeds, are examples. Recall how potatoes sprout 



12. Potato Bprouta. The sprouts have used the rood stored In the tuber, 

 and the tuber has shrivelled. 



in tin- cellar ( V\\s,. A'l) . t 1m- sprouts are produced from the 



stored food. 



7.). Tin presenct of starch can &< determined by apply- 

 ing diluted tinctun of iodim I" //>< part: if ;i blue or 



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