. An encyclopædia of gardening; . s being leaf-like substances situated near the flower, though different in theircolor, form, or substance, from the real leaves of the plant; together with the nectary, and several otherminute organs presumed to be nectaries, though not certainly known to be so. Appendages of tlie fruit. When the flower with its appendages has fallen, the ovary, which is stillimmature, is left attached to the plant, to complete the object of the fructification in the ripening of thecontained seed. If it is left without any extraneous or supernumerary appendage, which is a case
. An encyclopædia of gardening; . s being leaf-like substances situated near the flower, though different in theircolor, form, or substance, from the real leaves of the plant; together with the nectary, and several otherminute organs presumed to be nectaries, though not certainly known to be so. Appendages of tlie fruit. When the flower with its appendages has fallen, the ovary, which is stillimmature, is left attached to the plant, to complete the object of the fructification in the ripening of thecontained seed. If it is left without any extraneous or supernumerary appendage, which is a case thatoften occurs, as in the cherrj-, apricot, and currant, the fruit is said to be naked. The naked fruit, how-ever, is not to be confounded with the naked seed, from whicli it is altogether distinct. For it is the wantof a conspicuous pericarp that constitutes the naked seed ; but it is the want of an additional integumentenveloping the pericarp, that constitutes the naked fruit. But all parts of the flower are not always dcci-. 140 SCIENCE OF GARDENING. Part II. duous, and it often hapi>ens that one or otiicr of them still continues to accompany the pericarp or seedboth in its ripening and ripened state, constituting its appendage, and covering it either wholly or in part,or adhering to it in one shape or other. Sect. IL Imperfect Plants. 596. apparently defective in one or other of the more conspicuous parts ororgans, whether conservative or reproductive, are denominated imperfect. Lin-njEus characterised them by the appellation of cryptogamous plants, because theirorgans of fructification are not yet detected, or are so very minute as to require the aid ofthe microscope to render them visible ; and in the system of Jussieu they are includedin the monocotyledoneae and acotyledonea2, composing the cryptogameae of the former,and the whole of the latter division. As in the perfect plants, so in the imperfect plants,the eye readily recognises traces of a similitude
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