. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. Fig. fruit. ments. A gland-like body in the centersuggests a rudiment of a pistil. 365. The pistillate catkin is shownin Fig. 316. The flower has two styles,and four sepals which adhere closelyto the ovary. 366. A mulberry fruit is shown inFig. 317. It is composed of as manyparts as -there were pistils in the pis-tillate catkin. The stigmas seem to have disappeared, but the sepals have persisted;in fact, it is the thickened and fleshy sepals whichcomprise most of the edible part
. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. Fig. fruit. ments. A gland-like body in the centersuggests a rudiment of a pistil. 365. The pistillate catkin is shownin Fig. 316. The flower has two styles,and four sepals which adhere closelyto the ovary. 366. A mulberry fruit is shown inFig. 317. It is composed of as manyparts as -there were pistils in the pis-tillate catkin. The stigmas seem to have disappeared, but the sepals have persisted;in fact, it is the thickened and fleshy sepals whichcomprise most of the edible part of the fruit. The mulberry fruit, therefore, is an entire flower - cluster. 366a. The mulberry isan example of what iscalled a multiple or col-lective fruit. Look at thepineapple. 366!/. A mulberry lookslike a blackberry. How dothey differ ? 367. Figs areshown in Fig. arise from theaxils of leaves, asnormal branches do. pjq. 319 Each fig is an Obo- Pruit of Sg in
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