. Botany for young people and common schools : how plants grow : a simple introduction to structural botany : with a popular flora, or, an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated . Botany; Botany. 80 HOW PLANTS ARE PROPAGATED. 235. 1 Follicle is such a simple pod which opens down one side only. The pods of Peony, Columbine, and Marsh-Marigold (Fig. 210) are follicles. 236. A legume is a pod of a simple pistil, which splits into two pieces. It is the fruit of the Pea or Pulse family. Fig. 211 is a legume of the Pea, open, separated into its two valves. 237. A Caps
. Botany for young people and common schools : how plants grow : a simple introduction to structural botany : with a popular flora, or, an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated . Botany; Botany. 80 HOW PLANTS ARE PROPAGATED. 235. 1 Follicle is such a simple pod which opens down one side only. The pods of Peony, Columbine, and Marsh-Marigold (Fig. 210) are follicles. 236. A legume is a pod of a simple pistil, which splits into two pieces. It is the fruit of the Pea or Pulse family. Fig. 211 is a legume of the Pea, open, separated into its two valves. 237. A Capsule is the pod of any compound pistil. "When capsules open regularly, they either split through the partitions, or where these would be, as in the pod of St. Jolm's- wort (Fig. 212) ; this divides them into so many follicles, as it were, which open down the inner edge: or else they split open into the hack of the cells, as in the pods of the Lily, the Iris (Fig. 213), &c. 238. The pieces into which a pod splits are called ""'"""- its Valves. So a follicle (Fig. 210) is one-valved; a legume (Fig. 211), two^alved ; the cap- sules in Fig. 212 and 213, both three-valved, &c. 239. Two or three forms of capsule have peculiar names. The principal sorts are the Silique, the Silicic, and the Pyxis. 240. A Silique (Fig. 214) is the pod of the Cress family. It is slender, and splits into two valves or pieces, leaving behind a partition in a frame which bears the seeds. 241. A Silicle or Pouch is only a silique not much longer than broad. Shepherd's Purse; Fig. 216, the same with one valve fallen. 242. A Pyxis is a pod which opens crosswise, the top separating as a lid. Fig. 217 shows it in the Common Purslane ; the lid falling off. siiicis. 243. There remain a few sorts of fruits which are more or less compound or complex. They may be 217. pj-i't. classed under the heads of Aggregated, Accessory, and Multiple Please note that these images are
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