The elements of botany for beginners and for schools . some of the flowers. Fig. 408. A mulberry. 409. One of the grains younger, enlarged; seen to be!t pistillate flower with calyx becoming fleshy. 410. Same, with fleshy calyx cutacrosa SECTION 15.] SEEDS. 125 plants. As^already shown (313), these cones are open pistils, mostly inthe form of flat scales, regularly overlying eachother, and pressed together in a spike or scale bears one or two naked seeds on itsinner face. When ripe and dry, the scales turnback or diverge, and in the Pine the seed peelsoff and falls, generally carryin
The elements of botany for beginners and for schools . some of the flowers. Fig. 408. A mulberry. 409. One of the grains younger, enlarged; seen to be!t pistillate flower with calyx becoming fleshy. 410. Same, with fleshy calyx cutacrosa SECTION 15.] SEEDS. 125 plants. As^already shown (313), these cones are open pistils, mostly inthe form of flat scales, regularly overlying eachother, and pressed together in a spike or scale bears one or two naked seeds on itsinner face. When ripe and dry, the scales turnback or diverge, and in the Pine the seed peelsoff and falls, generally carrying with it a wing, apart of the lining of the scale,which facilitates the disper-sion of the seeds by the wind(Fig. 412, 413). In Arbor-Vitse, the scales of the smallcone are few, and not veryunlike the leaves. In Cy-press they are very thick atthe top and narrow at thebase, so as to make a peculiar sort of closed cone. In Juniper and RedCedar, the few scales of the very small cone become fleshy, and ripen intoa fruit which closely resembles a
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