. A text-book of botany for secondary schools. Botany. 274 A TEXT-BOOK OF BOTANY ^J*!*'^^^ %1/a 1 * f.(f feather palms (Fig. 271). The flower clusters are enor- mous, each cluster enclosed at first in a huge bract, which is often hard. In usefulness to man no monocotyle- donous family exceeds I - '• the palms except the '** grasses. Some of the prominent species are as follows: The coconut-palm is the most widely distributed palm, be- ing found in all trop- ical countries, and never very far from the sea, except as planted by man (Fig. 272). Its slender trunk, about two feet in diameter, rises
. A text-book of botany for secondary schools. Botany. 274 A TEXT-BOOK OF BOTANY ^J*!*'^^^ %1/a 1 * f.(f feather palms (Fig. 271). The flower clusters are enor- mous, each cluster enclosed at first in a huge bract, which is often hard. In usefulness to man no monocotyle- donous family exceeds I - '• the palms except the '** grasses. Some of the prominent species are as follows: The coconut-palm is the most widely distributed palm, be- ing found in all trop- ical countries, and never very far from the sea, except as planted by man (Fig. 272). Its slender trunk, about two feet in diameter, rises to a height of sixty to one hundred feet and bears a crown of downward curv- ing pinnate leaves. The coconut of com- merce is well known. It is really a stone-fruit (§ 143), in which the ovary wall has ripened in two layers: the outer a fibrous husk, corre- sponding to the flesh in a peach; the inner a hea^y bony layer. When on sale, the outer husk has usually been stripped off, and at one end of the bony coat three round black scars are seen, which indicate that the pistil is made up of three carpels. All parts of the plant are used, not only the nuts and the oil from them, but also the leaves, the root, the .sap of the young parts, Fig 271.— V feather piilrn. chj^ely related to the date-palm.—After Engler and 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 Coulter, John Merle, 1851-1928. New York, D. Appleton
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