. Botany for secondary schools; a guide to the knowledge of the vegetation of the neighborhood. Plants. along the front edge (that is, the inner edge, next the center of the flower) is a follicle. The fruit of the larkspur (Fig. 269) is a follicle. There are usually five of these fruits (sometimes three or four) in each larkspur flower, each pistil ripening into a fol- licle. (Fig. 270.) If these pistils were united, a single com- pound pistil would be formed. Colum- bine, peony, nine- bark and milkweed (Fig. 271) also have Legumes of perennial follicles, or everlasting pea. gjg A ^Q^led peric
. Botany for secondary schools; a guide to the knowledge of the vegetation of the neighborhood. Plants. along the front edge (that is, the inner edge, next the center of the flower) is a follicle. The fruit of the larkspur (Fig. 269) is a follicle. There are usually five of these fruits (sometimes three or four) in each larkspur flower, each pistil ripening into a fol- licle. (Fig. 270.) If these pistils were united, a single com- pound pistil would be formed. Colum- bine, peony, nine- bark and milkweed (Fig. 271) also have Legumes of perennial follicles, or everlasting pea. gjg A ^Q^led pericarp that dehisces on both edges is a legume. Peas and beans are typical examples (Figs. 272, 273, 274): in fact, this character gives name to the pea-family,—Leguminosae. Often the valves of the legume twist forcibly and expel the seeds, throwing them some distance. Sometimes (as in peanut) the legume does not dehisce of itself, even though it has all the essential struc- ture of a true pod. The word pod is sometimes restricted to legumes, but it is better to use it generically (as in 312) for all dehiscent 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 Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954. New York, Macmillan
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