. Practical botany, structural and systematic, the latter portion being an analytical key to the wild flowering plants, trees, shrubs, ordinary herbs, sedges and grasses of the northern and middle United States east of the Mississippi. Botany. 80 PRACTICAL BOTANY. MULTIPLE (collective, CONFLTJENt) FEriTS. 153. Multiple feuits result from the aggregation of a mimber of flowers (an inflorescence) in one mass. The fruits of Mitchella and of some Honeysuckles result from only two flowers. Their ovaries are united into a double or bwin berry. Here, then, we have the simplest form of 3ollective frui
. Practical botany, structural and systematic, the latter portion being an analytical key to the wild flowering plants, trees, shrubs, ordinary herbs, sedges and grasses of the northern and middle United States east of the Mississippi. Botany. 80 PRACTICAL BOTANY. MULTIPLE (collective, CONFLTJENt) FEriTS. 153. Multiple feuits result from the aggregation of a mimber of flowers (an inflorescence) in one mass. The fruits of Mitchella and of some Honeysuckles result from only two flowers. Their ovaries are united into a double or bwin berry. Here, then, we have the simplest form of 3ollective fruit. Collective fruits from a large number of lowers are the Mulberry, the Pineapple, and Fig. They ire transformations of dense forms of inflorescence, the loral envelopes, coherent with each other, having become 3ompletely or in part succulent. In the Mulberry, which it first view resembles a blackberry, the grains are the ipened ovaries, not of a single flower, but of as many dis- ;inct, clustered flowers; and the pulp of the grains results 'rom the transformation of the floral envelopes, and not )f the ovary-walls. This sort of fruit, thereiore, is not mly confluent, but also anthocarpous. The fruit of he Fig issues from an inflorescence, enclosed in a hollow lower-stalk, which becomes pulpy. A collective fruit is ilso the strobile, or cone—:a scaly, multiple fruit, which re-. Cdt 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 Koehler, August. New York, H. Holt and Company
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