. The elements of botany for beginners and for schools. Plants. 360 361 362 berry, the Magnolia, etc. It is the receptacle in the Strawberry (Fig. 3G0), much enlarged and pulpy when ripe, which forms the eatable part of the fruit, and bears the small seed-like pistils on its surface. In the Rose (Fig. 361), instead of being convex or conical, the receptacle is deeply concave, 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. The calyx remains beneath in the strawber
. The elements of botany for beginners and for schools. Plants. 360 361 362 berry, the Magnolia, etc. It is the receptacle in the Strawberry (Fig. 3G0), much enlarged and pulpy when ripe, which forms the eatable part of the fruit, and bears the small seed-like pistils on its surface. In the Rose (Fig. 361), instead of being convex or conical, the receptacle is deeply concave, 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. 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, and bears the small pistils immersed in separate cavities of its Ilat upper surface (Fig. 362). 327. A Disk is an enlarged low receptacle or an out- growth from it, hypogt/nous when underneath the pistil, as in Rue and the Orange i Fig. 363), and pertgynout Trheo adnate to calyx-tube (as in Buckthorn, Fig. 301, 305), and Cherry (Kg- •j;i)j 0r Flo. 360. Longitudinal section of a young strawberry, enlarged. Fig. 861. Similar section of a young Rose-hip, Fn;. 362. Enlarged and top-shaped receptacle of Nelumbium, at maturity. Fig. '606. llypogynous disk in 868. 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 Gray, Asa, 1810-1888. New York : American Book Company
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