THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM 



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CHAPTER I. 



THE HOOT. 



Notwithstanding the unseemly look of its tortuous rami- 

 fications, and the disorder of its absorbing fibres, the root 

 of our trees is none the less organically identical with their 

 regular boughs and symmetrical divisions. Anatomy and 

 experience prove this. 



We sometimes see in forests large branches creeping 

 along the surface of the earth, their lower half buried, 



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202. Leaved Branches and Adventitious Eoots on a half-buried Root-branch. 



while the other is bathed in air. The former sends out 

 rootlets which sink into the ground, and the other leaves 



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