growing-point

Updated: May 10, 2025

In these the gradual formation of the root-cap could be watched throughout, with merely a small lens. I do not know a better way to impress the nature of the root on the pupil's mind. These forming roots might also be marked very early, and so be shown to carry onward their root-cap on the growing-point. Root-hairs.

Jane H. Newell - Outlines of Lessons in Botany, Part I; from Seed to Leaf