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ADDRESS 



DELIVERED BEFORE THE 



WEST KENT NATURAL HISTORY, 

 MICROSCOPICAL and PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY, 



BY 



The President, JOHN M. STONE, Esq., M.A., 



On February 1900. 



Gentlemen, 



At the last Annual Meeting I laid before you some 

 phases in the life history of a certain class of Insects, this 

 evening I propose to consider for a few moments some 

 features in the life history of Plants. The particular sub- 

 ject upon which I propose to dwell being the characteristics 

 appertaining to certain plants for insuring their dispersal 

 over the area they are capable of occupying. 



In the Vegetable kingdom many are the methods by 

 which young or separate individuals are produced. 



Dealing only with the flowering plants, and speaking 

 generally, it may be said that the method of production is by 

 means of buds, which buds are produced either sexually, 

 when they are called seeds, or asexually, when they are 

 thrown off in some other form, as by runners above ground, 

 by underground off-shoots, by underground tubers, by tuber- 

 like off-shoots or bilbuls in the axils of the leaves, or even by 

 buds in the veins of the leaves. 



In all these cases the new plant is produced from a bud 

 or sprout which has been formed in some part of the old 



