. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. FiG. 253. Pod of Fia. of day-lily or funkia. 266 Z£!SSO-yS WITH PLANTS portant point is, that while there are many cap-sules in which the dehiscence is so undisguised that we can express itaccurately by a singleword, there are manyothers in which themode is intermediateor even The pod of themignonette (Fig. 257)is familiar. It is apouch with a singlecavity, and is open atthe top. If a pod isexamined, the seeds willbe found attached tothe walls in sev
. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. FiG. 253. Pod of Fia. of day-lily or funkia. 266 Z£!SSO-yS WITH PLANTS portant point is, that while there are many cap-sules in which the dehiscence is so undisguised that we can express itaccurately by a singleword, there are manyothers in which themode is intermediateor even The pod of themignonette (Fig. 257)is familiar. It is apouch with a singlecavity, and is open atthe top. If a pod isexamined, the seeds willbe found attached tothe walls in severalmore orless definite placentae. We suspect,therefore, that the fruit is really madeup of more than one carpel, notwith-standing its apparent simplicity. If,now, we go back to the flower, wefind the pistil closed, and as manysessile stigmas as there are to belobes or angles on the mouth of thepod. The dissepiments are wanting, , Capsule of mom- but there are homological reasons, ing-giory.
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