. American journal of pharmacy. Fig. 29.—Cranberry. Eudocarp withstoma. X 160. The berry is four-celled, each cell containing on a central placentaa number of seeds which fill only a small part of the otherwiseempty cavity {Fig. 2f). In the nearly ripe fruit only the epicarp is colored, the other partsbeing white ; but in the fully ripe fruit all the tissues are usually red. The yellow short-beaked seeds have a thick testa and a bulkyendosperm, with an elongated embryo of moderate size, consistingchiefly of the radicle, in the axis. The mountain cranberry has practically the same macroscopicst
. American journal of pharmacy. Fig. 29.—Cranberry. Eudocarp withstoma. X 160. The berry is four-celled, each cell containing on a central placentaa number of seeds which fill only a small part of the otherwiseempty cavity {Fig. 2f). In the nearly ripe fruit only the epicarp is colored, the other partsbeing white ; but in the fully ripe fruit all the tissues are usually red. The yellow short-beaked seeds have a thick testa and a bulkyendosperm, with an elongated embryo of moderate size, consistingchiefly of the radicle, in the axis. The mountain cranberry has practically the same macroscopicstructure as the cultivated species, but is much smaller. Histology.—The following description applies to both the culti- 26 The Anatomy of Edible Berries. {^ j^nSaryX vated and the mountain cranberry, the two being nearly, if not quite,identical in microscopic ep Fig. 30.—Cultivated Cranberry. Seed in transverse section, ep, epidermisof testa with sclerenchymatized and mucilaginous layers ; m, inner testa ; E,endosperm. X 160.
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