. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. Pig. oak Fi«. 285. Swamp white oak. REINFORCED FRUITS 283 the fruit, but they continue to be comparativelysmall, and remain upon the tree when the fruit ispicked. 332a. Since the cocoa-nut is a dry indehiscent 1-seeded fruit,it might be likened to a gigantic akene. Structurally, however, it ismore like a drupe, for the fibrous husk is formed from the outerpart of the pericarp (or exooarp, 300), andthe hard shell enclosing the meat is the . ^ inner part of the pericarp, or endocar
. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. Pig. oak Fi«. 285. Swamp white oak. REINFORCED FRUITS 283 the fruit, but they continue to be comparativelysmall, and remain upon the tree when the fruit ispicked. 332a. Since the cocoa-nut is a dry indehiscent 1-seeded fruit,it might be likened to a gigantic akene. Structurally, however, it ismore like a drupe, for the fibrous husk is formed from the outerpart of the pericarp (or exooarp, 300), andthe hard shell enclosing the meat is the . ^ inner part of the pericarp, or endocarp. Palmpistils are 3-earpelled, and in the cocoa-
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