. Maize; its history, cultivation, handling, and uses, with special reference to South Africa; a text-book for farmers, students of agriculture, and teachers of nature study. Corn; Corn. Botanical characters 7i The endosperm (Fig. I $c) consists of a store of prepared CHAP. food-material which the growing embryo absorbs for use in IV' the formation of new cells and tissues, in developing a root- system with which to absorb food-materials directly from the soil, and a leaf-system capable of photosynthesis (II 65). The seeds of some plants ( the castor-bean and the. Fig. 16.—Germinating maiz
. Maize; its history, cultivation, handling, and uses, with special reference to South Africa; a text-book for farmers, students of agriculture, and teachers of nature study. Corn; Corn. Botanical characters 7i The endosperm (Fig. I $c) consists of a store of prepared CHAP. food-material which the growing embryo absorbs for use in IV' the formation of new cells and tissues, in developing a root- system with which to absorb food-materials directly from the soil, and a leaf-system capable of photosynthesis (II 65). The seeds of some plants ( the castor-bean and the. Fig. 16.—Germinating maize grains, showing developing shoot, primary root, root-hairs and adventitious roots. (11 66.) lucerne) contain no endosperm, but store in the cotyledons a supply of food-material for the use of the growing seedling ; such seeds are sometimes spoken of as ex-albuminous, in contradistinction to the albuminous or endosperm-bearing seeds. 64. Germination.—The commencement of growth in a. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Burtt-Davy, Joseph, 1870-. London, New York, [etc. ] Longmans, Green and co.
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