. The elements of botany for beginners and for schools. Botany. 360 361 362 berry, the Magnolia, etc. It is the receptacle in the Strawberry (Fig. 360), much enlarged and pulpy when ripe, which forms the eatable part of the fruit, and bears the small seed-like pistils on its surface. In the Rose (Fig. 361), instead of being convex or conical, the receptacle is deeply concave, or urn-shaped. Indeed, a Rose-hip may be likened to a straw- berry turned inside out, like the finger of a glove reversed, and the whole covered by the adlierent lube of the calyx. The calyx remains beneath in the strawbe
. The elements of botany for beginners and for schools. Botany. 360 361 362 berry, the Magnolia, etc. It is the receptacle in the Strawberry (Fig. 360), much enlarged and pulpy when ripe, which forms the eatable part of the fruit, and bears the small seed-like pistils on its surface. In the Rose (Fig. 361), instead of being convex or conical, the receptacle is deeply concave, or urn-shaped. Indeed, a Rose-hip may be likened to a straw- berry turned inside out, like the finger of a glove reversed, and the whole covered by the adlierent lube of the calyx. The calyx remains beneath in the strawberry. 326. In Nelumbium, of the Water-Lily family, the singu- lar and greatly enlarged receptacle is shaped like a top, and bears the small pistils immersed in separate cavities of its flat I upper surface (Fig. 302). 327. A Disk is an enlarged low receptacle or an out- growth from it, hypogynous when underneatii the pistil, as in Rue and the Orange (Fig. 363), and perin/nous when adnate to calyx-tube (as in Buckthorn, Fig. 364, 365), and Cherry (Fig. 271), or Fig. 3G0. Longitudinal section of a young .strawbei'i-y, etilargeil. Fig. 36L Similar section of a young Rose-liip. Fig. 3(52. Enlarged and receptacle of Nelumbium, at maturity. Fig. 3t53. Hypogynous disk iu Orange. 8. 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 Gray, Asa, 1810-1888. New York : American Book Company
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