. The natural history of plants. Botany. 10. Long. sect, of flowers (^). Fig. 11. Fruit (a). or almost superposed, descendent, anatropous with micropyle directed outwards and upwards.^ The fruit, generally accompanied at its base by the persistent calyx,^ is dry, surmounted by a style, and opens at maturity, so that eaich of the cells dehiscence from the axis of the fruit.^ separates by septifragal The cell rises elastically violet, or even bluish. The pollen is in spheri- cal grains, opaque ; " on three sides an elliptical cavity; in this is a papilla which swells in water ; external mem
. The natural history of plants. Botany. 10. Long. sect, of flowers (^). Fig. 11. Fruit (a). or almost superposed, descendent, anatropous with micropyle directed outwards and upwards.^ The fruit, generally accompanied at its base by the persistent calyx,^ is dry, surmounted by a style, and opens at maturity, so that eaich of the cells dehiscence from the axis of the fruit.^ separates by septifragal The cell rises elastically violet, or even bluish. The pollen is in spheri- cal grains, opaque ; " on three sides an elliptical cavity; in this is a papilla which swells in water ; external memhrane coarse or papillose" (H. MoHL, in Ann. So. Nat. ser. 2, iii. 336). The pollen is generally the same as in Erodium Pelargonium, etc. ' They have two coats. Sometimes one of the two ovules being displaced it becomes more or less obliquely ascendent. 2 They are generally applied to the young fruit after the fall of the petals. ' HorMEiBTEB has studied this phenomenon of. dehiscence in a work where he has also shown how the cells prolonged above into. 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 Baillon, Henri Ernest, 1827-1895; Hartog, Marcus Manuel, 1851-. London, L. Reeve & Co.
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