. Botany of the living plant. Botany. Fig. 236. Samara, or winged fruit of Sycamore, dividing into two. (Aitcr Fignicr.) extreme cases are seen in Nipa, Cocos, and Lodoicea, all of them littoral and estuarine Palms. Their fruits have fibrous husks with air- chambers, and this serves to float them. Each contains a single. Fig. 237- Fruiting annual plants otSalsola, caught at a wire fence, as they wore by wind over level sand, on the coast near .Adelaide, .Australia. seed. Those of Lodoicea, the Double Coco-Nut of the Seychelles, arc the largest known. They may be carried longTdistances
. Botany of the living plant. Botany. Fig. 236. Samara, or winged fruit of Sycamore, dividing into two. (Aitcr Fignicr.) extreme cases are seen in Nipa, Cocos, and Lodoicea, all of them littoral and estuarine Palms. Their fruits have fibrous husks with air- chambers, and this serves to float them. Each contains a single. Fig. 237- Fruiting annual plants otSalsola, caught at a wire fence, as they wore by wind over level sand, on the coast near .Adelaide, .Australia. seed. Those of Lodoicea, the Double Coco-Nut of the Seychelles, arc the largest known. They may be carried longTdistances by ocean 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 Bower, F. O. (Frederick Orpen), 1855-1948. London, Macmillan
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