Plants and their children

by Frances Theodora Parsons

Fig. 98

The baby corn plant is very small. It does not fill the whole seed shell, but gets its nourishment from the food by which it is surrounded.

This picture shows you a seed or grain of corn cut in two (Fig. [98]). Of course, this is much larger than life. In the center you see the tiny plant. All about is the baby food.

The next picture (Fig. [99]) shows you the young corn plant.

Fig. 99

I want you to remember that this is the only plant we have seen with but one seed leaf. This one seed leaf never comes out of the seed shell. There are other plants of the same kind. All the grass plants have but one seed leaf, and the blue flag that grows in wet meadows, and all the lilies.

Fig. 100