. A manual of structural botany; an introductory textbook for students of science and pharmacy. Plant morphology. 122 CLASSIFICATION OP FRUITS follicle. Some forms of the akene are distinctly winged, so that they might, but for the relationship of the species yielding them to akene- producing species, be with equal propriety classed as samaras. They are in nearly all cases provided with some means for securing wind-trans- portation or for attaching themselves to passing bodies, and yet there are numerous cases in which such appendages have become entirely obsolete. For these reasons, it become
. A manual of structural botany; an introductory textbook for students of science and pharmacy. Plant morphology. 122 CLASSIFICATION OP FRUITS follicle. Some forms of the akene are distinctly winged, so that they might, but for the relationship of the species yielding them to akene- producing species, be with equal propriety classed as samaras. They are in nearly all cases provided with some means for securing wind-trans- portation or for attaching themselves to passing bodies, and yet there are numerous cases in which such appendages have become entirely obsolete. For these reasons, it becomes a matter of extreme difficulty to frame a definition at once comprehensive and delimiting for this group. The inferior akene is sometimes distinguished by the term Cypsela (Figs. 74 to 80). -j'U, ^Ig Md 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 Rusby, Henry Hurd, 1855-. Philadelphia and New York, Lea & Febiger
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