WAYSIDE WEEDS. 



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sorrow, in the twitch, or couch-grass. Lastly, we 

 have plants like the primroses, the plantains, the 

 dandelion, and many others, which oiier us an 

 apology for a stem, in a thickened neck, just above 

 the root, from which is given off the crowd of leaves 

 and flower scapes. 



Now, with all these various forms of under- 



Fio. 91.— Koot of White Sedge; mixed branelied, and fibrous. 



ground stems, we fear^ our uninitiated readers will 

 begin almost to think they will not know a root 

 when they see one, and perhaps have doubts 

 whether the familiar radish, whose very name 

 means root, is really a root. 



As we might expect, roots share many of the stem 

 characters : they are annual, biennial, triennial, and 



