ON THE ROOTS OF THE SUGAR-CANE. 137 
Porter, and published in 1843. In that work, p. 14, Porter says : 
“The roots are very slender and almost cylindrical ; they are never 
more than a foot in length ; a few short fibres appear at their 
extremities.” These words are copied verbatim by the authors of 
the new work, and how mistaken they are I have shown above. 
_the only work I have met with where cane is really correctly 
Pictured is a Report by M. Ch. L. Fleischmann.{ that 
Report, fig. 29a presents the underground attachment of a young 
cane with its rootlets. This drawing is correct so far as it goes, 
but if more rootlets had been figured a truer idea could be formed. 
DISCUSSION. 
Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents for 1848, Washington, 
1849, This Ks rt also contains some well-drawn illustrations of re ah 
scopic sections of the sugar-caneby M. Corda, Professor at the University 0: 
Prague in 1848, 
[Three diagrams. ] 
