. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. rticultural or common-language sense, straw-berries and blackberries are berries, but in the botanical sensegrapes, currants, gooseberries, tomatoes and oranges are word is commonly used in these two meanings without muchconfusion arising, but if it should be necessary to choose betweenthe two, it must be remembered that the botanist borrowed theword from common language, and that the latter, therefore, hasprior rights. 324. If there are no constant differences in thepistils of ba
. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. rticultural or common-language sense, straw-berries and blackberries are berries, but in the botanical sensegrapes, currants, gooseberries, tomatoes and oranges are word is commonly used in these two meanings without muchconfusion arising, but if it should be necessary to choose betweenthe two, it must be remembered that the botanist borrowed theword from common language, and that the latter, therefore, hasprior rights. 324. If there are no constant differences in thepistils of baccate (or berry-bearing) and capsularfruits, then we should expect to find closely relatedplants upon which the two kinds of fruits are Solanacese, or nightshade family, may be selected BERRIES 275 as an example. In the solanums proper, as thenightshade, potato, egg-plant, and also in the toma-toes, the fruits are berries ; in the petunias,, to-bacco, and datura or jimson-weed (some kinds cul-tivated under the name of brugmansia), the fruitsare capsular and dehiscent. In fact, in some of. Pia. of Scuppemong grape. the solanumfe, the berry is so hard and dry as tosuggest a capsule. Berries and capsules are fun-damentally not greatly unlike. 276 LUSSOIfS WITH PLANTS
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