. Plant life and plant uses; an elementary textbook, a foundation for the study of agriculture, domestic science or college botany. Botany. 354 FRUITS AND SEEDS You have noted the various and common structures of seeds and fruits which favor their transportation through the air. (See Figures 143, 146, and 257.) The fruits of many Composite and of many successful trees furnish the most conspicuous examples of this type of dispersal. The catalpas, the maples, the elms, and most members of the , pine family have Fig. 157. — Ripe fruits of dandelion. Note the tufts or hair which act like parachute
. Plant life and plant uses; an elementary textbook, a foundation for the study of agriculture, domestic science or college botany. Botany. 354 FRUITS AND SEEDS You have noted the various and common structures of seeds and fruits which favor their transportation through the air. (See Figures 143, 146, and 257.) The fruits of many Composite and of many successful trees furnish the most conspicuous examples of this type of dispersal. The catalpas, the maples, the elms, and most members of the , pine family have Fig. 157. — Ripe fruits of dandelion. Note the tufts or hair which act like parachutes and enable these fruits Winged IlUltS Or to travel far on even the slightest breeze. — After ggg(Js. (See Fi£- Kerner. . ures 159 A, and 146.) The wings borne by seeds and fruits of many tropical trees are of remarkable size, one very successful family of tropical trees receiving its name (Dipterocarpece, meaning winged seeds) from this character. (See Figure 158.) You have noted the tumbleweeds (page 327); FlG- ^ — w'm*ed seed of Bignoma, a tropi- . cal tree. — After Strasburger. recall also that it is from light seed hairs, structures favorable for wind dissemina- tion, that cotton is 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 Coulter, John G. (John Gaylord), b. 1876. New York, American Book Co
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