62 ELEMENTS OJ;' STKUCIUKAL. BOTANY 



CHAPTEK XII. 



MORPHOLOGY OF KOOTS, STEMS, AND FOLIAGE-LEAVES. 



82. From what has gone before, you should now be 

 tolerably familiar with the names of the different organs 

 of plants, and you have also had your attention directed 

 to some modifications of those organs as they occur in 

 different plants. In all these cases, the adjective terms, 

 which botanists use to distinguish the variations in the 

 form of the organs, have been placed before you, and if 

 you have committed these carefully to memory, you will 

 have laid a good foundation for the lessons which follow 

 on Morphology, the name given to the study of the 

 various forms assumed by the same organ in different 

 plants, or in different parts of the same plant. In 

 some instances, the terms emploj-ed, being derived from 

 Latin and Greek, and specially devised for botanical 

 purposes, may seem difficult to learn. We believe, 

 however, that this difficulty will be found to be more 

 apparent than real. You will be surprised at the ease 

 with which the terms will occur to your mind if you 

 learn them with the help of plants which are every- 

 where within your reach — ^if you be not satisfied with 

 being mere book-botanist.'; 



With a good many terms you will find no difficulty 

 whatever, since they will be found to have the same 

 meaning in their botanical apphcations as they have in 

 their everyday use. 



