1. Випишіть з тексту слова латино – грецького походження та перекладіть їх

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2. Дайте визначення поняттям:

Model: A seed is a reproductive part of a plant.

Root – ___________________________________________________

Stem – ___________________________________________________

Leaf – ___________________________________________________

Taproot system – __________________________________________

Fibrous root system – _______________________________________

Shoot – __________________________________________________

Node – ___________________________________________________

Bud – ___________________________________________________

Branch – _________________________________________________

Flower – _________________________________________________

Fruit - ___________________________________________________

Task III

Read and translate the text “PLANT INTOXICATION”

Raw material –сировина

Boggy soil –болотистий грунт

To maintain –зберігати, отримувати

To attract –приваблювати

Attractive – привабливий

To explore – досліджувати

To supply –постачати

Persistent –стійкий

Danger – небезпека

To feed – живитись

Opium poppy – мак

Hemp –конопля

Poisoning - отруєння

Plant intoxication

The knowledge that there are plants that contain poison and narcotics is almost as old as mankind himself. H. L. Edlin

I. Opium poppy. An unusual plant juice which is able to heal and destroy a man is contained in the lacteal glands of a fragile plant, the OPIUM POPPY (Papaver Somniferum). When young the charming flowers, 10 cm in diameter, have four light-colored petals concealed within the two sepals of the calyx. The buds droop but straighten up as they open, throwing off the covering of the calyx and spreading lout with a striking dark circle at the bottom. The cask-like stigma sitting on top, grows larger after fertilization to form the globular poppy-head. It contains up to several thousands tiny, kidney-shaped seeds. According to the species, they are white, pink, grey, greenish, blue or black. Only the ripe seeds contain no alkaloids which otherwise Impregnate all other parts of the plant. The white juice of the plant, termed latex, flows out when the unripe poppy- head is cut, drying and' hardening in the air. It changes into a poisonous brown substance called opium.

The better known of its side products are morphine and codeine. It its pure state, morphine is a drug that sends a person to sleep, cases his pains and deadens his sense of pain. It can do much to help the sick but it can also kill. The misuse of opium as a narcotic has spread from eastern Asia to Europe and America. The ancient Sumerians (4000 B.C.), the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, all knew and cultivated the opium poppy as a medicinal and oil-bearing plant. As expressed in its Latin species name "somniferum" - from the word somnus" — meaning "sleep", and "fero" meaning "I bring", the poppy was a plant bringing sleep and dreams. In mythology, the god of sleep, Hypnos, wears a poppy garland.

II. Hemp (Cannabis sativa) is one of the oldest plants used by. man. Although it has become best known as the source of the narcotic drug hashish, or marijuana, it is also a textile and oil-giving plant.

Hemp is an annual plant with inconspicuous male and female flowers separated on different plants. Only I female plants are grown for spinning fibres. They have a stem which is up to 4 m high, and broad palm-shaped leaves. The small flowers change into capsules covered with the hard, shiny, dried calyx. They are the main component of bird seed used to feed exotic birds. The dried plant is included in the official list of medical herbs of many countries. Hemp was cultivated as a narcotic and oil-giving plant in 1000 B.C. in India and the Orient. According to Chinese records, knowledge of this oldest narcotic plant goes back to 2000 B.C. It is grown in tropical and subtropical regions of India for the resin-like substance exuded by tiny glands on the leaves, the ends of the branches, and from the cluster of female flowers. The narcotic hashish has an intoxicating effect at first, but later destroys living organism.

The use of hashish has its roots in the Orient where narcotics took the place of drinking alcohol, which was forbidden by the sacred writings of the Muslims in the Koran.