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species) follow the mode of annuals. The seedling plants have roots of the 

 annual character, with a long radicle giving off numerous branches (fig. 13). 



Fig. 13.— andbosace eloxoata. 

 The adult plant has little provision for storage, but consists of a dense tuft of 

 leaves, from the axils of some of which proceed long slender runners, like those 

 of a Strawberry, and which bear at their ends a tuft of leaves like the parent 

 from which they sprung. From the under-surface of this tuft proceed roots 

 like those of the Centunculus, and, like them, destined not for any lengthened 

 use, but only for a temporary purpose ; no long time indeed elapses ere the 

 tuft throws out new runners, and thus repeats in another generation the process 

 of its own genesis (figs. 14, 15). It would seem from this peculiar mode of 



Fis. 14.— andbosace VIHOSA, this part. 



