. Beginners' botany. Botany. 168 BEGINNERS' BOTANY particular reference to its structure. The botanical and horticultural conceptions of a berry are, therefore, unlike. In the botanical sense, gooseberries, currants, grapes, to- matoes, potato-balls, and even eggplant fruits and oranges (Fig. 241) are berries; strawberries, raspberries, black- berries are not. A fleshy pericarp containing one relatively large seed or stone is a drupe. Examples are plum (Fig. 242), peach, cherry, apricot, olive. The walls of the pit in the plum, peach, and cherry are formed from the inner coats of the ovary, an
. Beginners' botany. Botany. 168 BEGINNERS' BOTANY particular reference to its structure. The botanical and horticultural conceptions of a berry are, therefore, unlike. In the botanical sense, gooseberries, currants, grapes, to- matoes, potato-balls, and even eggplant fruits and oranges (Fig. 241) are berries; strawberries, raspberries, black- berries are not. A fleshy pericarp containing one relatively large seed or stone is a drupe. Examples are plum (Fig. 242), peach, cherry, apricot, olive. The walls of the pit in the plum, peach, and cherry are formed from the inner coats of the ovary, and the flesh from the outer coats. Drupes are also known as stone-fruits. Fruits that are formed by the sub- sequent union of separate pistils are aggregate fruits. The carpels in aggregate fruits are usually more or less fleshy. In the raspberry and blackberry flower, the pistils are essentially distinct, but as the pistils ripen they co- here and form one body (Figs. 243, 244).. Fig. 242. — Plum ; exam- ple of a 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 Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954. New York, The Macmillan company
Size: 1552px × 1610px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorbai, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectbotany
