The American botanist and florist; including lessons in the structure, life, and growth of plants; together with a simple analytical flora, descriptive of the native and cultivated plants growing in the Atlantic division of the American union . Dehiscence; 173, septicidal; 174, loculicidal; 175, septifragal. 149. JPorous dehiscence is exemplified in the Poppy, wherethe seeds escape by orifices near the top of the fruit. It is notcommon. Gircwmscissile {circumscindo^ to cut around), whenthe top of the ovary opens or falls off like a lid, as in Jefferso-nia, Henbane, Plantain. Some fruits, as th
The American botanist and florist; including lessons in the structure, life, and growth of plants; together with a simple analytical flora, descriptive of the native and cultivated plants growing in the Atlantic division of the American union . Dehiscence; 173, septicidal; 174, loculicidal; 175, septifragal. 149. JPorous dehiscence is exemplified in the Poppy, wherethe seeds escape by orifices near the top of the fruit. It is notcommon. Gircwmscissile {circumscindo^ to cut around), whenthe top of the ovary opens or falls off like a lid, as in Jefferso-nia, Henbane, Plantain. Some fruits, as the Gerania and Um-belliferae, are furnished with a carpophore^ that is, a slender col-umn from the recej)tacle—2, fusiform torus^ prolonged throughthe axis of the fruit, supporting the carpels. Review.—IiZ. Origin of the fruit. Death of the flower. What parts may survive ?—InApple? Geum? Potato? Strawberry? 145. A rule aud. an exception. Instance in Oak-Birch. What change in Thornapple ? 146. Constituents of the fruit. Etymology ofpericarp. Texture. 147. Open pericarps. 148. What is dehiscence and general modes of dehiscence. Four modes of valvular dehiscence. 149. DefinePorous dehiscence—Circumscissile. What i
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