. Plants and their ways in South Africa. Botany; Botany. Fig. 179.— Longitudinal section through the uni- locular drupe of the Peach. (From Thome and BennetTs "Structural and Pb)'siological Ro- tanv ".) I-'IG. i3o.—Tr;insverse sec- tion through a Goose- berry ; the firmer outer layer of the pericarp en- closes the succulent flesh : the seeds lie embedded in the latter, and are at- tached b}' long funiculi to two opposite parietal placentas. (I-'rom Thome and Bennett's ".Struc- tural and Physiological Botany "".) A berry is a fruit with a firm outer covering ; the rest
. Plants and their ways in South Africa. Botany; Botany. Fig. 179.— Longitudinal section through the uni- locular drupe of the Peach. (From Thome and BennetTs "Structural and Pb)'siological Ro- tanv ".) I-'IG. i3o.—Tr;insverse sec- tion through a Goose- berry ; the firmer outer layer of the pericarp en- closes the succulent flesh : the seeds lie embedded in the latter, and are at- tached b}' long funiculi to two opposite parietal placentas. (I-'rom Thome and Bennett's ".Struc- tural and Physiological Botany "".) A berry is a fruit with a firm outer covering ; the rest of the fruit is juicy. Did you ever look at a young orange? The inner walls of the fruit are ,„. covered with tiny hairs. These grow and fill the cavities as the fruit ripens. They make the juicy part of the fruit. A young Apple shows five carpels surrounded by a green cup. This cup grows and ripens with the ovaries. A Rose Hip has a fruit built on a similar plan, only there are more carpels. The part outside the outer double line, in Fig. iSi, is the receptacle which bears the calyx at the top. It encloses and is united with the five carpels, the core. The mesocarp lies between the outer and inner double lines of the diagram. The inner hard shining layer surround- ing the seeds is the 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 Stoneman, Bertha. London, New York, Longmans, Green
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