. 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; Botany. 248. Multiple Fruits are masses of simple or accessory fruits belonging to differ- ent flowers, all compacted together. Mulberries (E'ig. 223) are of this sort. They look like blackberries, but each grain belongs to a separate flower; and the eatable pulp is not even the seed-vessel of that, but is a loose calyx grown pulpy, just like that of Checker- iSerry, and surrounding
. 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; Botany. 248. Multiple Fruits are masses of simple or accessory fruits belonging to differ- ent flowers, all compacted together. Mulberries (E'ig. 223) are of this sort. They look like blackberries, but each grain belongs to a separate flower; and the eatable pulp is not even the seed-vessel of that, but is a loose calyx grown pulpy, just like that of Checker- iSerry, and surrounding an akene, which is generally taken for a seed. The pine-apple is much like a mulberry on a large scale. A fig is a multiple fruit, being a hollow flower-stalk grown pulpy, the inside lined by a great number of minute flowers. 249. So, under the name of fruit very diflTerent things are eaten. In figs it is a hollow flower-stalk ; in pine-apples and mulberries, clusters of flower-leaves, as well as the stalk they cover; in straw- berries, the receptacle of a flower; in blackberries, the same, though smaller, and a cluster of little stone-fruits that cover it; in raspberries, the little stone-fruits in a cluster, without the receptacle. In checkerberries, quinces, and (as to all but the core) apples and pears, we eat a fleshy enlarged calyx; in peaches and other stone-fruits, the outer part of a seed-vessel; in grapes, gooseberries, blueberries, and cranberries, the whole seed-vessel, grown rich and pulpy. 250. me Cone of Pine (Fig. 224) and the like is a sort of multiple fruit. Each scale is a whole pistillate flower, con- sisting of an open pistil leaf, ripened, and bearing on its upper face one or two naked seeds,—-as explained at the end of the last section (218, 219). Fig. 225 shows the upper side of one of the thick scales taken off, bearing (5>ne seed; the other, removed, is shown, with its wing, in Fig. 226. § 2. Seeds. 252. A Seed is an ovule fertilized and matured
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