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Title: The natural history of plants, their forms, growth, reproduction, and distribution;
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Kerner von Marilaun, Anton, 1831-1898 Oliver, Francis Wall, 1864- Macdonald, Mary Frances Ewart Busk, Marian Balfour, Lady
Subjects: Botany
Publisher: London, Blackie
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same influence on the plant preyedupon as has been noted in the case of Langsdorffia. The root attacked is strippedof bark at the place where the tubercle is attached; the wood is then resolved intoa fringe of fibres which stand straight up, and, diverging like the spokes of a fan, BROOM-RAPES, BALANOPHOREiE, RAFFLESIACE^. 189 distribute themselves in the tissue of the parasite, the latter having in the mean-time developed into a tuberous stock as large as a nut. These radiating bundles,issuing from the wood of the nutrient root, come then into such intimate connectionwith the vessels formed in the tuber of the parasite, that the one appears to be acontinuation of the other. They are, besides, entangled together, and between themis intercalated a mass of small parenchymatous cells which also adheres to the yetunfrayed portion of the foster-roots wood, and coalesces with it. The tuberousbody of the parasite, which in the first instance is only adnate to the host on one . ^^-^t^likfVc.
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■ Scybalium fungi forme, from Brazil. -Parasitic Balanophorese. ^Balanophora nUdenbrandtii, from the Comoro Islands. side, gradually encompasses it entirely, and the nutritive root then appears toperforate this irregular tuber. The inflorescences are produced direct from buds,which are formed under the bark at projecting spots of the brown tuberous stem,the cortex bursting open and allowing a thick flesh-coloured shoot, closely beset byovoid pointed scales, to emerge and grow up into a form resembling a mortar-pestle.At the summit this shoot expands into a disc, and upon this are borne little capitu-late groups of flowers, which are inserted amongst innumerable quantities of scalesand hairs. The pistillate and staminate flowers are separated in different inflo-rescences, whilst the entire structure has an undeniable resemblance when in bloomto the inflorescence of an artichoke gone to seed, and later on to a toad-stool. In the eastern hemisphere we find the various species of the ge

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