. Freaks and marvels of plant life; or, Curiosities of vegetation. Plant anatomy. 3o8 FREAKS OF PLANT LIFE. sufficient to afford some explanation of the pheno- menon first alluded to. Sir James Smith says, in allu- sion to the Egyptian bean (Nelumbium speciosum)," in process of time the receptacle separates from the stalk, and, laden with ripe oval nuts, floats down the water. The nuts vegetating, it becomes a cornucopceia of young sprouting plants, which at length break loose from their confine- ment and take root in the ; The most remark- able of tropical fruits, in their struc
. Freaks and marvels of plant life; or, Curiosities of vegetation. Plant anatomy. 3o8 FREAKS OF PLANT LIFE. sufficient to afford some explanation of the pheno- menon first alluded to. Sir James Smith says, in allu- sion to the Egyptian bean (Nelumbium speciosum)," in process of time the receptacle separates from the stalk, and, laden with ripe oval nuts, floats down the water. The nuts vegetating, it becomes a cornucopceia of young sprouting plants, which at length break loose from their confine- ment and take root in the ; The most remark- able of tropical fruits, in their struc- tural aspect, are some of the myrtle family, the seeds of which are enclosed a large woody. in Fig. 63.—Receptacle of the Egyptian Bean {Nelumbium speciosum). urn, or capsule, like a drinking-vessel with a movable lid. In some of them the fruit is no larger than a small walnut, in others as large as a man's In some the form is elegant and urn-like, in others it resembles 1 See descriptions and figures of a large number of species in "Transactions of the Linnaean Society," vol. xxx., p. 157, & 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 Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt), b. 1825. London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York, E. & J. B. Young
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