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MORPHOLOGY 



CHAPTER X 



MEtAMORPHOSIS IN PLANTS — ARMATURE IN PLANtS 

 — INSECTIVOROUS PLANTS — HOMOLOGY AND 

 ANALOGY — TRICHOMES. 



It has already been mentioned that when a stem 

 is so modified in shape and form as to resemble a 

 leaf it is called a cladode, as in phani-monsha and 



Coccoloba Platyclada (see fig. 26 and Plate I). The 

 axillary tufts of green needle-like structures in sata- 

 moolee or Asparagus are modified branches or cla- 

 dodes (fig. 56). In the Australian genus of babla or 

 Acacia, the leaflets of the compound pinnate leaf fall 

 off soon after their appearance, and the petiole, flat- 



