LABORATORY PRACTICE 



CHAPTER XV 



REPRODUCTION 



A SINGLE plant is an individual. Any method, by which 

 the number of individuals of a species is increased, is called a 

 method of reproduction. 



A plant may produce new individuals, i.e. increase the 

 number of independent plants, by simply splitting or divid- 

 ing itself up, by detaching parts of itself, or it may produce 

 special bodies which are unlike any of its ordinary vegeta- 

 tive parts, and these bodies finally produce new plants. 

 Accordingly, we may distinguish the two general methods 

 of reproduction, as follows : 



I. Vegetative Reproduction. 

 II. Seed and Spore Reproduction. 



