Hi">W ri-ANTS fJHOW FROM THF. SFF.O. 



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y. Tho root keeps on «,'ro\vin^' uiitU'r i/rouinl, aii'l x'luliii'; ofi" uiovo .ind 11101 »• 

 small ItiiiMchos or /v/n/AVx, each cne adiliiii,' sonictliinir to the amount of ahsoiliiiii; 

 surfacf in cimtMct with the moist sciil, 'Mw little stem likfw i.-,i' li'iiiftheuK upwards, 

 ami ilif pair of h-aves on its summit ^'row lar<:er. l»ut tlwso soon ^'«>t th»'ir full 

 ^'I'owtli ; ami uc ilo not y<'t see, perhaps, whcit' iunr(^ aro tocome from. Ihit now 

 a litth' huil, calh'il tjic /'/////////'. aj>pt'ars on the top of tlie strm ( |''iir. j:;), ju>t bo- 

 twtM'ii the stalks of the two seed Icavt s ; it ciilari^es and unfolds ii;') a lea.'; this 

 soou is raistd ujioii ;i new piece of stem, wliieji car- 

 lies up the leaf, just as the pair of seed lea\e> were 

 raised l>y the len^thenin;.' of the raditde or liist jiiint 

 of stem in the seed. Then another leaf ;ip[ tears on 

 the summit of this joint (.f stem, and is raiseil upon 

 its own j<'ii:t of stem, and so on. \'\;j. 2^ shows the 

 same J hint as Fiir. 22 ^eaNin,','' out the root and tho 

 h»wer J alt of the stem , at a later slai,'e; '", '•, are the 

 seed lea \('s ; / i> the ue\t leaf, which came from tho 

 plumule of l-'iir. 22, now Well r.'iisi'd on the second / 

 joint (»f stem ; and / is the i.e.xt, still very small and | / 

 just unh.hliiiL:. And so t he j 1 i:.t ^'row s on, the whole ij /J 

 summer loiiir. jrodui in;^' le;;f after leaf, one hy one, 

 and raisiu;,' ea( h on its own joint of stem, arisi:i<,' 

 from the summit of the mwl lielow ; —as we see in 

 Fiif. 4, at the lie;,dunin.Lr "f the cliapter. where many joints of stein have i,'rown 

 in this way (tr.e lirst with a j^air ( f leaves, lh(> rest with one apiece), and still 

 there are some unfoldiiiif ones ;it tlie slender youn;,'' summit. 



32. How the Seedling is Nourished at the Beginning. (.-mH/h reciuires. /;»»/, in plants 



as W(dl ;is in animals. To <j;row into a plant, the enihiyo in a ^cfd must \>o fed 

 with ve<jetal)lo matter, or with somethin;/ out of which ve;jetahle matter can lie 

 made, ^\'hen a plant lias established itself-tli.it i-, has sent down iis roots into 

 the soil, and spread out some leaves in the air it is then able to (han;u'o mineral 

 matter (viz., earth, air, and water) which it takt s in. into xej^etable matter, ami .-o 

 to live and fji-ow independently. lint at the iiejfinninir, before its or<;ans are 

 developed ami established in their projter j laces, the foriinnif )>lant must be sup 

 plied by ready-nunle ve^etai)le matter, furnished by the mother-plant. On this 

 supply the embryo germinating from the seed feeds and grows — just as thi' new 



