. Plant life in Alpine Switzerland; being an account in simple language of the natural history of Alpine plants. Mountain plants. THE MOUNTAIN HONEYSUCKLE 227 berry, formed by the fusion of the two ovaries; and as the fruit ripens and becomes globose, the distinction between the two ovaries, from which it originates, is gradually lost. The double berry, however, bears two scars near the apex, marking the position of the calyx of each flower (Text-fig. XXIII.). The bracteoles in this species are small and unimportant. Curiously enough, while the formation of a double berry is constant wherever
. Plant life in Alpine Switzerland; being an account in simple language of the natural history of Alpine plants. Mountain plants. THE MOUNTAIN HONEYSUCKLE 227 berry, formed by the fusion of the two ovaries; and as the fruit ripens and becomes globose, the distinction between the two ovaries, from which it originates, is gradually lost. The double berry, however, bears two scars near the apex, marking the position of the calyx of each flower (Text-fig. XXIII.). The bracteoles in this species are small and unimportant. Curiously enough, while the formation of a double berry is constant wherever this plant is found in Switzerland, in India, where it also occurs, the berries are always free and not united. The fruit of the Mountain Honeysuckle forms an ex- ^'^ i?n t a rn%oSsucS: Cellent illustration of the (Lonicera alplgma, Linn.), , . , . .1 , ,1 formed by the complete union botanical axiom, that the ex- of the two berries. planation of many features The scars of the two calyx rings â "â .11 n ⢠1 can still be seen. presented by flowers is to be sought for in the fruit. The flower is merely a stage towards the fruit, and the fruit is only a con- trivance for the distribution of one or more seeds at a distance from the parent plant. In the case of the Mountain Honeysuckle, the idea appears to be, that if the seeds of two flowers are contained within a single berry, they will have a greater chance of being all distributed, should some bird devour the berry, than if two berries containing the same number of seeds were 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 Arber, Edward Alexander Newell, 1870-. London, J. Murray
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