. Introduction to botany. Botany. CHAPTER V THE STEM AND THE LEAF. Fig. 37. Beefwood, Gamarina, an Austra- lian switch plant destitute of foliage leaves and depending on the chlorophyll-containing cells of the bark for photosynthesis Photograph by Robert Cameron 56 55. Work of the leafy shoot. How plant food is made from raw mate- rials has been briefly ex- plained in Chapter IV. In almost all of the higher plants tliis food- making is carried on by the cooperation of the stem and the leaf. Taken together, they are known as the shoot, so that the parts of a flowering plant (before it begins to
. Introduction to botany. Botany. CHAPTER V THE STEM AND THE LEAF. Fig. 37. Beefwood, Gamarina, an Austra- lian switch plant destitute of foliage leaves and depending on the chlorophyll-containing cells of the bark for photosynthesis Photograph by Robert Cameron 56 55. Work of the leafy shoot. How plant food is made from raw mate- rials has been briefly ex- plained in Chapter IV. In almost all of the higher plants tliis food- making is carried on by the cooperation of the stem and the leaf. Taken together, they are known as the shoot, so that the parts of a flowering plant (before it begins to flower) are root and shoot. 56. Photosynthesis in the stem. Among seed plants in general it is the leaves that do by far the greater part of the work of photosyn- thesis, but some plants, as the caeti (fig. 66), are practically leafless â "â ^ That is, they have no leaves which can do any food-making or which at all resemble ordinary 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 Bergen, Joseph Y. (Joseph Young), 1851-1917; Caldwell, Otis William, 1869- joint author. Boston, New York, [etc. ] Ginn and company
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