. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany . Fig. 3G.—Coconut. A, flower-oluster with one of the immense bractswhich envelop it while young, showing staminate flowers in upperpart of branches, and pistillate ones near the base, much , staminate flower. C, jjistillate flower. B and C slightly reduced.(Original drawing from photograph.)—The flowers and enclosing bractsare various shades of yellow. 48 VARIOUS FOOD-PLANTS. Fig. 37.—Pea (Pisum Family, Leguniinosce).Plant in flowci ;uk1 fruit, uuiciircchutcl. (Nicholson.)—T h cjjlant iy an annual, clinihing
. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany . Fig. 3G.—Coconut. A, flower-oluster with one of the immense bractswhich envelop it while young, showing staminate flowers in upperpart of branches, and pistillate ones near the base, much , staminate flower. C, jjistillate flower. B and C slightly reduced.(Original drawing from photograph.)—The flowers and enclosing bractsare various shades of yellow. 48 VARIOUS FOOD-PLANTS. Fig. 37.—Pea (Pisum Family, Leguniinosce).Plant in flowci ;uk1 fruit, uuiciircchutcl. (Nicholson.)—T h cjjlant iy an annual, clinihing of tondrils which termi-nate the Icavcsi-stcni and loavespalofrreon, smooth and co\-crcdwith a delicate hloom whicheasily rub>s off; flowers, white,bluish, purplish, or variefiateil. V\G. 38.—Pea. .4, flower, ii, thesame halved. B, corolla, withpetals separated, showinjrstandard (e), wings («, a), andkeel (c). C, the stamen-tulieand pistil, enlarged. D, , pod shedding seeds. F, aseed, showing stalk (/), placeof minute opening, the mi-cropyle, through which mois-ture penetrates {>ii), raphe orridge (r) and chalaza or endof ridge (f); G, embryo, laidopen, showing cotyledons orseed-leaves (c), radicle or seed-root (/•), caulide or seed-stem(0. and plumule or seed-bud (g). (Warming.)
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