. Textbook of botany. Botany. (including the orange, lemon, and grapefruit), berries (cur- rants, gooseberries, blueberries, cranberries, tomatoes, grapes, etc.), and the false fruits and compound fruits that have already been men- tioned. Many of the edible fruits, as we have them now, have been greatly en- larged and improved by breeding. The coats of a good many fruits (for example, those of ,, ji 1 1 j_i Fig. i6g. — The discharge of the the pea, the bean, and the ^^^ „f ^^e cranesbiU by the sudden morning glory) crack open opening of the fruit coat and the when they are ripe, and so curlin
. Textbook of botany. Botany. (including the orange, lemon, and grapefruit), berries (cur- rants, gooseberries, blueberries, cranberries, tomatoes, grapes, etc.), and the false fruits and compound fruits that have already been men- tioned. Many of the edible fruits, as we have them now, have been greatly en- larged and improved by breeding. The coats of a good many fruits (for example, those of ,, ji 1 1 j_i Fig. i6g. — The discharge of the the pea, the bean, and the ^^^ „f ^^e cranesbiU by the sudden morning glory) crack open opening of the fruit coat and the when they are ripe, and so curling of the parts into which it ,, ,, 1 i J- 11 splits. After Kerner. allow the seeds to tall or to be shaken out. Some fruit coats open in an explosive way so as to throw out the seeds, sometimes to a consider- able distance. The common touch-me-not of the gardens (known also as "balsam") is an instance of this kind; others are the cranesbills (Fig. 169), the violets, whose seeds are pinched or squeezed out by a contraction of the divisions into which the fruit coat spHts, and the " squirt- ing cucumber " (Fig. 170), whose seeds, with the juicy pulp surrounding them, are squeezed out through an Fig. 170. —a branch of the squirt- opening in the end of the ing cucumber, showing a fruit falling ^^.^ g^^ ^j^g majority of from its stalk and dischargmg its .^ , , r-^ u <-u seeds. After Kerner. fruitS do not Split when they. 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 Allen, Charles E. (Charles Elmer), b. 1872; Gilbert, Edward Martinius, joint author. Boston, New York [etc. ] D. C. Heath & co
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