. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany . -al of all the leaves but one and all the staminateflower-dusters below it except the lower pirt of their stalks. At thetip of the twig is the small cluster of pistillate flowers. Three-branchedstaminate flower-duster. Staminate flower, top view. Nut, after removal of the husk. Flower and stamen, enlarged.(Britton and Brown.)—The plant is a large slender tree, becoming50 ni. tall; bark somewhat rough; .\-oung twigs and leaves hairy; maturefoliage nearly smooth; flowers greenish; fruit brownish green; nutlight brown. The native
. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany . -al of all the leaves but one and all the staminateflower-dusters below it except the lower pirt of their stalks. At thetip of the twig is the small cluster of pistillate flowers. Three-branchedstaminate flower-duster. Staminate flower, top view. Nut, after removal of the husk. Flower and stamen, enlarged.(Britton and Brown.)—The plant is a large slender tree, becoming50 ni. tall; bark somewhat rough; .\-oung twigs and leaves hairy; maturefoliage nearly smooth; flowers greenish; fruit brownish green; nutlight brown. The native home of the various nuts and of other food-plants, the length of time they have been cultivated, andcertain other matters of related interest, will be discussedat the end of this chapter. 34. Pulse, under which name are included ])eas (Figs. 37,38), and beans (Figs. 39,.40), agree witli grains and nuts In the reforonco to the illustrations the reader will observe that thesame .\rabic numeral .sometimes applies to more than one cut, Roman PULSE 41. Fig. 30.—Shagbark Hickory {Carya alba. Walnut Family, Juglandaccce).A single leaf. Staminate flower-cluster. Staminate flower, under side,enlarged. Twig bearing a single fruit. Xut. (Britton and Brown.) —A large tree becoming 36 m. tall; bark shaggy in narrow plates, gray;young twigs and leaves slightly hairy becoming smooth; flowers green-ish; fruit greenish brown; nut almost white. in that the nutritive part, is contained within the seed,but differ from them in that the seeds ripen in a rather thin-walled pod which opens at maturity by splitting in halvesfrom end to end. The very large amount of nutriment in proportion tobulk, together with the small percentage of water and oil(see chart) renders beans and peas among the very bestfoods for storage, and particularly adapts them for use uponlong voyages. That they are highly nutritious is shownby the large amount of proteid they contain. This, however,is found to be of a sort re
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