. The American botanist and florist: including lessons in the structure, life, and growth of plants; together with a simple analytical flora, descriptive of the native and cultivated plants growing in the Atlantic division of the American union. Botany; Botany. FORMS OP THE PERICARP. 55 153. Cari/opsis, the grain or fruit of the Grasses, is a thin, dry, 1-seeded pericarp, inseparable from the seed. 154. Sama7'a; dry, 1-seeded, indehiscent, furnished with a membranous wing or wings (Ash, Elm, Maple).. 176, Acheuia of Anemone tluilictroides. 177, Cremocarp of Archangelica officinalis, its lialvc
. The American botanist and florist: including lessons in the structure, life, and growth of plants; together with a simple analytical flora, descriptive of the native and cultivated plants growing in the Atlantic division of the American union. Botany; Botany. FORMS OP THE PERICARP. 55 153. Cari/opsis, the grain or fruit of the Grasses, is a thin, dry, 1-seeded pericarp, inseparable from the seed. 154. Sama7'a; dry, 1-seeded, indehiscent, furnished with a membranous wing or wings (Ash, Elm, Maple).. 176, Acheuia of Anemone tluilictroides. 177, Cremocarp of Archangelica officinalis, its lialvcs (racro- cnrps) separated and suspended on the carpophore. 178, Cspsela of Thistle with its plumons pappus. 179, Utricle of Chenopodium (Pigweed). 180, Caryopsis of Wheat. 181, of Elm. 182, Glans of Beech. 183, Drupe of Prunus. 18i, Fruit of Fragaria Indica, a fleshy torus like the Strawberry. 155. Glaus, or 7iiit^' hard, dry, indehiscent, commonly 1-seeded by suppression (§145), and invested with a persistent involucre called a cupiile, either solitary (Acorn, Hazelnut) or several together (Chestnut, Beechnut). 156. Drupe, stone-fruit; a 3-coated, 1-celled, indehiscent peri- carp, exemplified in the Cherry and Peach. The outer coat (epidermis) is called the epicarp; the inner is the nucleus or endocarp, hard and stony; the intervening pulp or fleshy coat is the sarcocarp (capf, flesh). These coats are not distinguish- able in the ovary. 157. Tryma, a kind of dryish drupe, 2-coated; the epicarp fibro-fleshy (Butternut) or woody (Hickory); the nucleus bony, with its cell often deeply 2-parted (Cocoanut). 158. Etcsrio, an aggregate fruit consisting of numerous little drupes united to each other (Raspberry) or to the fleshy recep- tacle (Blackberry). 159. Berry, a succulent, thin-skinned pericarp, holding the seeds loosely imbedded in the j)ulp (Currant, Grape). 160. Hesperidium, a succulent, many-carpelled fruit; the rind. Please note that these images are extracted fr
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