Excerpt from The Conditions of Parasitism in Plants The mechanical adhesion of the bodies Of seed-plants which would make parasitism possible might be brought about in three different ways: (1) Roots growing thickly interlaced in the soil might unite or penetrate each other; (2) adventitious roots arising from internodes at any place on the aerial stems might pierce the bodies of other plants; (3) seeds lodging in the bark or in the wounds Of a plant might germinate and send absorb mg organs into the tissues of the possible host. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.