- Fact 2 - Plants are divided by
their structure and methods of reproduction into two series,
phaenogamous or flowering plants, which have true flowers and
seeds, and cryptogamous or flowerless plants, which have no
flowers, and reproduce by minute one-celled spores
- Fact 3 - In both series are minute
and simple forms and others of great size and complexity
- Fact 4 - In relation to nutrition
plants may be considered as self-supporting or dependent.
- Fact 5 - Self-supporting plants
always contain chlorophyll, and subsist on air and moisture and
the matter dissolved in moisture, and as a general rule they
excrete oxygen, and use the carbonic acid to
combine with water and form the material for their tissues.
- Fact 6 - Dependent plants comprise
all fungi and many flowering plants of a parasitic or
saprophytic nature. As a rule, they have no chlorophyll, and
subsist mainly or wholly on matter already organized, thus
utilizing carbon compounds already existing, and not excreting
oxygen.
- Fact 7 - There are plants which are
partly dependent and partly self-supporting.
- Fact 8 - movements of climbing
plants, of some insectivorous plants may be considered a kind
of voluntary motion.
- Fact 9 - The parts of a plant are
the leaves, flowers, stems, roots and seeds
- Fact 10 - A seed contains its own
food supply, which helps the sprouting plant grow
- Fact 11 - Buds are small swellings
from which a shoot, leaf, or flower usually develops
- Fact 12 - Stems usually continue to
grow upward above the ground and bear leaves in a pattern along
the stem
- Fact 13 - Roots help to anchor
plants and give them support
- Fact 14 - The parts of a flower are
Pistils, stamens, stigmas, anthers, petals, and sepals
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