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THE mode in which roots travel in pursuit of food (moisture) is often remarkable. Innumerable instances have been published. But I think the inclosed is one of the most striking which I have come across. The specimen kindly sent to the Kew Museum by the vicar of Petersham is most extraordinary. The roots seem to have behaved more like the mycelium of a fungus than an ordinary axial structure.
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THISELTON-DYER, W. Travelling of Roots. Nature 47, 414 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/047414a0
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