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Identifier: cu31924000414908 (find matches)
Title: Plant-life, with 74 full-page illus., 24 being from photos, by the author and 50 in colour from drawings
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Hall, Charles Albert, 1872-
Subjects: Botany
Publisher: London, A. & C. Black
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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d passes them on to the plant, whichholds it as a vassal. Here, indeed, we have a turningof the tables. The fungus, which we might expect tobatten on a higher plant, is actually commandeered intoits service. British saprophytes of the flowering type arefew. We have the Birds-nest Orchid (Neottia Nidus-avis), which is leafless; its stem is pale brown, and itsflowers, arranged in a spike, are dingy brown. It isfound in many p irts of England and Ireland, also inSouthern and Central Scotland, in the humus of dampwoods, but it is not common. The Coral-root Orchis(Corallorhiza innata) is very rare; it has a repeatedlybranched rhizome, resembling branched coral, hence thename. There is no true root. The leaves are reducedto mere scales; the stem and flowers are a greenishyellow. The plant is found only in the East of Scot-land, in moist woods. The Yellow Birds-nest (Mono-tropa hypopitys) belongs to the Heath Family, Ericaceae.It occurs in the humus of Birch, Beech, and Fir woods Plate LIII.
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TOOTHWORT (hathrxa squamana).Order OROBANCHACEM.A parasitic plant.1- Calyx 4. Petal and pistil 2. Corolla 5. Cross section, ovary 3. Flower PARASITISM 293 in England and parts of Southern Scotland; it is veryrare in Ireland. It is found in Europe and North Asia,also in North America; in Southern Europe it is analpine. Some forest trees, such as Pines, and alsoHeaths, which flourish in an acid humus soil, are servedby subject-fungi, and thus are to some extent sapro-phytic through their agency. In the course of time theymay become total saprophytes—a not over-glorious issue. Parasitism in plants is in many instances complete,in others only by way of becoming complete. Parasiticplants are interesting as indicating the length to whichplant-life will go in its determination to exist; but theyalso point a moral in which the example elicits adegree of contempt. A parasite lives at the expense ofanother, doing no worthy labour, but always managingto propagate its degenerate kind. In Britai
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