. Botany of the living plant. Botany. THE FRUIT AND SEED-DISPERSAL ?0i fruit-coat (pericarp), with air-spaces. Their lart^c fruits can thus be easily floated away as they drop, by n stream or by tides. But. Fig. 236. Samara, or winged fruit of Sycamore, dividing into two. (Aitcr Fignicr.) extreme cases are seen in Nipa, Cocos, and Lodoicea, all of them littoral and estuarine Palms. Their fruits have fibrous husks with air- chambers, and this serves to float them. Each contains a single. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced f
. Botany of the living plant. Botany. THE FRUIT AND SEED-DISPERSAL ?0i fruit-coat (pericarp), with air-spaces. Their lart^c fruits can thus be easily floated away as they drop, by n stream or by tides. But. Fig. 236. Samara, or winged fruit of Sycamore, dividing into two. (Aitcr Fignicr.) extreme cases are seen in Nipa, Cocos, and Lodoicea, all of them littoral and estuarine Palms. Their fruits have fibrous husks with air- chambers, and this serves to float them. Each contains a single. 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 Bower, F. O. (Frederick Orpen), 1855-1948. London, Macmillan
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