. The botanical class-book, and flora of Pennsylvania, designed for seminaries of learning and private classes. loosely within, as in the Grape, Goose-berry, and Currant. A Thesperidiwm or Orange is merely aberry with a leathery rind. 16. A Pome (Apple, Fig. 124,) is a fruit composed oftwo or mora cartaleginous or long carpels, which enclose theseeds more or less enveloped in the pulpy expansion of thereceptacle or disk, and the whole invested by the succulenttube of the calyx, as in the Apple, Pear, and Quince. 17. A Pepo (gourd,) is an indehiscent, fleshy, or inter-nally pulpy fruit, usually
. The botanical class-book, and flora of Pennsylvania, designed for seminaries of learning and private classes. loosely within, as in the Grape, Goose-berry, and Currant. A Thesperidiwm or Orange is merely aberry with a leathery rind. 16. A Pome (Apple, Fig. 124,) is a fruit composed oftwo or mora cartaleginous or long carpels, which enclose theseeds more or less enveloped in the pulpy expansion of thereceptacle or disk, and the whole invested by the succulenttube of the calyx, as in the Apple, Pear, and Quince. 17. A Pepo (gourd,) is an indehiscent, fleshy, or inter-nally pulpy fruit, usually composed of three carpels, investedby the calyx, and a firm rind, as in the Cucumber; Melon,and Gourd. 76 SEED. 18. A Strobile or Cone (Fig. 125,) is an aggregatedfruit, consisting of scale-like carpels spread open, each bear-ing one or more naked seeds, as in the Fir tribe (Coniferse),The cones of the Tulip, Poplar (Liriodendron,) are, however,entirely different, consisting of numerous aggregated carpelsof a single flower, attenuated at the apex into a scale, crowdedon the elongated receptacle, 124. 125;.
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