. Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany. With a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany. 80 HOAV PLANTS ARE 235. A Follicle is sucli a simple pod which opens down one side only. The pods of Peony. Columbine, and Marsh-Marigold (Fig. 210) are Ibllicles. 23G. A Legume is a pod of a simple pistil, which splits into two pieces. It is the fruit of the Pea or Pulse family. Fig. 211 is a legume of the Pea, open, separated into its two valves. 237. A Capsule is the
. Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany. With a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany. 80 HOAV PLANTS ARE 235. A Follicle is sucli a simple pod which opens down one side only. The pods of Peony. Columbine, and Marsh-Marigold (Fig. 210) are Ibllicles. 23G. A Legume is a pod of a simple pistil, which splits into two pieces. It is the fruit of the Pea or Pulse family. Fig. 211 is a legume of the Pea, open, separated into its two valves. 237. A Capsule is the pod of any compound pistil. When capsules open regularly, they either split iJiroiigh the partitions, or where these would be, as in the pod of St. John's- wort (Fig. 212) ; this divides them into so many follicles, as it were, which open down the inner edge: or else they split open into the hack of the cells, as in the pods of the Lily, the Iris (Fig. 213), &c. 238. The pieces into which a pod splits are called its Vahes. So a follicle (Fig. 210) is one-valved ; a legume (Fig. 211), two-valved ; the cap- sules in Fig. 212 and 213, both three-valved, &c. 239. Two or three forms of capsule have peculiar names. The principal sorts are the Siliqiie, the Silicle, and the Pyxis. 240. A Siiiqae (Fig. 214) is the pod of the Cress family. It is slender, and splits into two valves or pieces, leaving behind a partition in a frame which bears the seeds. 241. A Silicle or Pouch is only a sihque not much longer than broad Shepherd's Purse ; Fig. 21G, the same with one valve fallen. 242. A Pyxis is a pod which opens crosswise, the top separating as a lid. Fio-. 217 shows it in the Common Purslane ; the lid falling off. "'^ Silicle. ^ 243. There remain a few sorts of fruits which are more or less compound or complex. They may be classed -under the heads of Aggregated, Accessory, and Multiple Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may h
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