The Ontario Natural Science Bulletin, 1913, Vol. 8 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Ontario Natural Science Bulletin, 1913, Vol. 8Of these terms tuberoids are explained as fleshy-thickened roots, resembling a tuber, but is not admissible since tuber is Latin, and oid Greek. Moreover there 15 no need of introducing a new term for these organs. In regard to corm this is explained as the enlarged fleshy base of a stem, bulb-like, but solidi/which is very wrong, since cormus simply applies to°the stem, as radix to the root, it would be highly desirable if authors of botanical manuals would use the terms in conformity with terminology, for instance the very comprehensive work of Bischofi'fi) Cormus and stirps can only be used) for a stem in general, they may, however, occur as truncus, caulis.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.