ON THE ORGANS OF PLANTS. 15 



amine all carefully. You will need all your little 

 implements, to do the work neatly and handily, so 

 have forceps, knife, needle, &c. ready. Gather some 

 Buttercups, Anemones, Poppies, Wallflowers, Mallows, 

 Pansies or Campions, and take up root and fibres : we 

 will see the formation of the whole Plant. 



A EOOT, is usually, that part of the Plant which 

 fixes it to the earth, and remains underground. Some 

 Plants, send out Roots from their Stems, which re- 

 main above ground, and fix to whatever they grow 

 against. The Ivy, is one: and there are many others, 

 which strike their roots into other Plants, and feed up 

 them, to the injury of the Plants that nourish them. 

 A Boot has neither leaves nor scales upon it ; but some 

 plants have thick, underground Stems, which are often 

 called Boots; the Potato we eat is a Stem, called a 

 Tuber ; for it has buds of Leaves upon it (called eyes, 

 usually) which will grow into perfect Plants. The 

 real Roots of the Potato are the fibres, growing out 

 of the Stem. PL II. 15 t. Some Plants have under- 

 ground Stems, called Creeping -Roots, which throw 

 out Fibrous-roots at distances, like the Marsh Mari- 

 gold, etc. 



A STEM is that part of the Plant which rises 

 immediately from the Root ; and which bears leaves 



