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THE CliOWFfK)'! FAMILY 



the woofl-anemony and tlie Christmas rose, and persist over 

 the winter as a reservoir of food upon wliieh liuds may feed 

 the foIlo-iA'ing spring. Such an elongated subterranean stem 

 is eahed a rootstock or rhizome.^- When, as in the bulbous 

 crowfoot, the subterranean base of the stem Ijecomes so much 

 gorged with food as to 1)e sphiproidal or oblate in form it is 

 termed a "solid l)ull)" or conn.- 



fid 



-Vino-ljowiT ('IcTiiatis {('Ivmuiis VUiUbii, Crowfoot Family, 

 Rannnculaceir) . /I, flower-cluster, ii, flower. C, same, cut vertically. 

 D, stamen. E, pistils. F, floral diagram. G, fruit. H, base of fruit, 

 cut vertically. (LeAIaout and Decaisnc.) — A somewhat woody climber 

 growing 10 m. long; flowers dull white; fruit hoary. Native home, 

 Mediterranean Kegion; cultivated in gardens. 



Turning now to tlie foliage of our marsh-marigold we find 

 the leaves t(j be of a form very common among seed-plants, 

 and comparativelj- simple although more highly developed 

 than tlie leaves of flax. In a mai'sh-marigold leaf we may 

 distinguish a liroadly expanded jiart, the blmlc, borne on a 

 footstalk or petiole;' which expands again at its base into a 



' Ilhiz-onie < (!r. rlu:ii, root, l)ecau.so of its i'()()l-lik(> aiipenrance. 

 2 Conn < dr. l.-in-ninx. :i pollarded free-trunk. 



■' Pet'-i-oie < I,. iH'liidiis, a little fool, diniinu(i\-e of inn, iidlis, a 

 foot. 



