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(•ally from (Iio roco])t;\ol(>, nirviii^ npwanls with a >iiiM<n jirk, wliioJi 

 scatters tlio si-cd, oi'lc-n thfowiiig it to n coiisidcralilc cli.-laiicL-. 



.'J.'IO. When a ilowcr 

 bears ji great many pis- 

 tils, its receptacle is gen- 

 erally enlarged so sis to 

 give tlieni room ; some- 

 times becoming broad 

 and flat, as in the Flow- 

 ering Raspberry, some- 

 times elongjited, as in 

 the Blackberry, the Mag- 

 nolia, iVc. It is the re- 

 ceptacle in the Straw- 



' V7B •■til V'3 



berry (Fig. *i7:»), inti.h 



enlarged and pulpy wlicn lipo, which forms the eatable i)art of tlie 

 fniit, ajid bears the small seed-like pistils on its 

 ,'j / snrface. In the Rose (Fig. 2S0). instead of being 

 '^^ convex or conical, the receptacle is deeply con- 

 ^^ cave, or nrn-shaped. Indeed, a Rose-hip maybe 

 likened to a strawberry turned inside out, like 

 the finger of a glove reversed, and the whole 

 covered by the adluM-ent tube of the calyx, which 

 remains ixMicath in the strawberry. 



031. A Disk is a part of the re- 

 ceptacle, or a growth from it, vn- 

 larged under or around the |)i-lil. 

 It is Jnjpogifuous (2G0), when free 

 from all union either with the pistil P, 

 or the calyx, as in the Rue and the 

 Orange (Fig. 281). It is perlriy- 

 "° nnin; (270). when it adheres to the '-»' 



base of the calyx, as in tin- IWad.lcr-mit aiul IJuckthorn (Fig. 282, 



FIC. '^Ti".. I'lowpr iif flynaiulrnpsis , tlic rorpptarlp piilarsnl «nd flattonoil « lioro it l)o.-ira 

 the sppals anil |>clals, llipii olon«aipil into a sirnrlpr stalk, bparins the Ftamons (in a|i|icnrnnre, 

 but they are nionailcl|ihnMs) alH)vc itn niiililjp. anil a cmniioiiiid ovary on itd yiiiiinill. 



VUi. 277. Viuirn; Iriiil i.f the rnniniuM Wilil Craiieshill. 



FK;. 278. The mww, ri|(e, with the five |iir.iils s|iliiiin|! away from the long beak or recep> 

 tacle, anil lianL'iiii! froni \U lop hy their styles. 



FK;. 27'.i. Ijoncitiiilinal xectioii of a yoiinir sira wherry, cnlarRed. 



FIG. 280. Hiniilnr i<cctiiiii of n yoiine liose-hip 



FIG. 2hl. Pistil of the Orarice, with a largo hyiK.gynons dink at its liaso. 

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