. Botany of the living plant. Botany; Plants. Fig. 249. Samara, or winged fruit of Sycamore, dividing into two. (After Figuier.) extreme cases are seen in Nipa, Cocos, and Lodoicea, all of them littoral and estuarine Palms. Their fruits have fibrous husks with air- chambers, and this serves to float them. Each contains a single. Fig. 250. Fruiting annual plants of Salsola, caught at a wire fence, as they were rolled by wind over level sand, on the coast near Adelaide, Australia. seed. Those of Lodoicea, the Double Coconut of the Seychelles, are the largest known. They may be carried long dista
. Botany of the living plant. Botany; Plants. Fig. 249. Samara, or winged fruit of Sycamore, dividing into two. (After Figuier.) extreme cases are seen in Nipa, Cocos, and Lodoicea, all of them littoral and estuarine Palms. Their fruits have fibrous husks with air- chambers, and this serves to float them. Each contains a single. Fig. 250. Fruiting annual plants of Salsola, caught at a wire fence, as they were rolled by wind over level sand, on the coast near Adelaide, Australia. seed. Those of Lodoicea, the Double Coconut of the Seychelles, are the largest known. They may be carried long distances by ocean Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bower, F. O. (Frederick Orpen), 1855-1948; Wardlaw, C. W. (Claude Wilson), 1901-. London, Macmillan and Co. , ltd.
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