Plants and their ways in South Africa . Fig. 167.—Floret of Sow-thistle.(From Edmonds and Mar-loths Elementary Botanyfor South Africa .) cluster or an etaerio of fruits. In borne above the perianth. A dry one-seeded superior fruitIn the Strawberry the receptacle is convex and fleshy; in the rose it hairy ovaries. Fig. 168.—Tailed acheneof Protea me I lifer a,Thunb. (From Ed-monds and Marloths Elementary Botany forSouth Africa .) these flowers the ovary is is an bears the achenesis hollow, andiconceals the 1/6 Plants and their Ways in South Africa Tripteris, Trlaspis, Dodonaea, Com

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Plants and their ways in South Africa . Fig. 167.—Floret of Sow-thistle.(From Edmonds and Mar-loths Elementary Botanyfor South Africa .) cluster or an etaerio of fruits. In borne above the perianth. A dry one-seeded superior fruitIn the Strawberry the receptacle is convex and fleshy; in the rose it hairy ovaries. Fig. 168.—Tailed acheneof Protea me I lifer a,Thunb. (From Ed-monds and Marloths Elementary Botany forSouth Africa .) these flowers the ovary is is an bears the achenesis hollow, andiconceals the 1/6 Plants and their Ways in South Africa Tripteris, Trlaspis, Dodonaea, Combretum (Roodeblad),and Portulacaria (Spekboom) have winged fruits. A winged truit is a samara. In the fruit of the grasses the ovary wall and the seed-coatbecome attached to each other. On the grain of Maize a littlepoint on one side indicates the place where the style, the silk,was borne. A dry one-seeded fruit in which the ovary wall and seed-coat are attached is called a caryopsis. A dry fruit which splits into several portions

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