KOOTS. 



winter, plants perfect in all their parts in an embryo state ; the 

 leaves and Die flowers with all their parts may frequently be dis- 

 tinctly dissected out, and the stamens, p-stils, &c. counted. 



Linnaeus arranged both buds and bulbs under the same term, 

 Hybernaculum, winter residence 



2 The radicles are generally from the base of bulbous roots, as 

 in the Onion. 



7. GRANULATED, (granulata.) PI. 1, fig. 12. Com- 

 posed of joints or grains. Ex. Wood Sorrel, Oxalis 

 Jicctosdla. White Saxifrage, Saxifraga grnnulata* 



Observation 1. It is with roots as with other natural objects, we 

 can apply terms to the most prominent features, while there are so 

 many intermediate points of gradual transition, that we hardly 

 know where to draw the line of distinction. Tiie application of 

 these terms is in many cases arbitrary. 



As botanists have in general determined under what head to 

 place the root of every species of plant, we have only to follow 

 them. 



2. Specific characters are sometimes taken from the root, and 

 in some cases the specific name also, as Solanum tuberosum t Pota- 

 toe ; Ranunculus bidbosus, Bulbous Ranunculus, and Ranunculus 

 fascicukirnt. 



