. Beginners' botany. Botany. CHAPTER XXI FRUITS The ripened ovary, with its attachments, is known as the fruit. It contains the seeds. If the pistil is simple, or of one carpel, the fruit also will have one com- partment. If the pistil is compound, or of more than one carpel, the fruit usually has an equal number of com- partments. The com- partments in pistil and fruit are known as lo- cules (from Latin locus, meaning "a place"). The simplest kind of fruit is a ripened i-loculed ovary. The first stage in complex- ity is a ripened 2- or many-loculed ovary. Very complex forms may aris
. Beginners' botany. Botany. CHAPTER XXI FRUITS The ripened ovary, with its attachments, is known as the fruit. It contains the seeds. If the pistil is simple, or of one carpel, the fruit also will have one com- partment. If the pistil is compound, or of more than one carpel, the fruit usually has an equal number of com- partments. The com- partments in pistil and fruit are known as lo- cules (from Latin locus, meaning "a place"). The simplest kind of fruit is a ripened i-loculed ovary. The first stage in complex- ity is a ripened 2- or many-loculed ovary. Very complex forms may arise by the attachment of other parts to the ovary. Sometimes the style persists and becomes a beak (mustard pods, dentaria. Fig. 224), or a tail as in clematis; or the calyx may be attached to the ovary; or the ovary may be embedded in the receptacle, and ovary and receptacle together consti- tute the fruit: or an involucre may become a part of the i6^. Fig. -Dentaria, or Tooth-wort, 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 Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954. New York, The Macmillan company
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