The elements of botany for beginners and for schools . berry, the Magnolia, etc. It is the receptacle in the Strawberry (Fig. 360),much enlarged and pulpy when ripe, which forms the eatable part of thefruit, and bears the small seed-like pistils on its surface. In the Rose(Fig. 361), instead of being convex or conical, the receptacle is deeplyconcave, or urn-shaped. Indeed, a Rose-hip may be likened to a straw-berry turned inside out, like the finger of a glove reversed,and the whole covered by the adherent tube of the calyx remains beneath in the strawberry. 326. In Nelumbium, of th
The elements of botany for beginners and for schools . berry, the Magnolia, etc. It is the receptacle in the Strawberry (Fig. 360),much enlarged and pulpy when ripe, which forms the eatable part of thefruit, and bears the small seed-like pistils on its surface. In the Rose(Fig. 361), instead of being convex or conical, the receptacle is deeplyconcave, or urn-shaped. Indeed, a Rose-hip may be likened to a straw-berry turned inside out, like the finger of a glove reversed,and the whole covered by the adherent tube of the calyx remains beneath in the strawberry. 326. In Nelumbium, of the Water-Lily family, the singu-lar and greatly enlarged receptacle is shaped like a top, andbears the small pistils immersed in separate cavities of its flatupper surface (Fig. 362). 327. A Disk is an enlarged low receptacle or an out-growth from it, hypogynous when underneatli the pistil, as inRue and the Orange (Fig. 363), and perigynous when aduate to calyx-tube (as in Buckthorn, Fig. 364, 365), and Cherry (Fig. 271), or
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