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HOW PLANTS ARE PROPAGATED. 



grows, until it can provide for itself; the seed-coats to protect it, especially after it 

 is shed ; the seed-vessel, to i)rotcct it and to nourish it while Ibrming ; the stamens 

 and jiistil, to originate it. 



2 GO. The embryo consists of its Radicle or original stemlet, from one end of 

 which the root stai'ts, from the other the stem is continued ; also of one or more 

 Cotyledons or Seed-leaves, and often of a Plumide or bud for continuing the stem 

 upwards. How the embryo grows into a plant, was fully explained at llie com- 

 mencement of this book. 



Analysis of the Section. 



Fruits are 



Simple Fruits are 



§ 1. Table of Kinds of Feuit. 



P.iragr. 



1. Simple: seed-vessels of one pistil, 221 



2. Aggregated : clusters of seed-vessels all of the same flower, . 244 



3. Accessory: the flesh, &c. external to and separate from the pistil, 245-247 



4. JIultiple: composed of the simple or accessory fruits of more than 



one flower, 



Fleshy Fruits (222), such as the 

 Stone-Fruits, or the . 



248 



Dry- Fruits, 227, { 



Indehiscent, 228, 



Dehiscent, or Pods, 233, 



Multiple Fruits are 1 Angiospermons, or closed, 219, 248. 



( Gymnospermous, or naked-seeded, 218, 219, 



Cone, 250 



^ 2. Seeds. — 252. What a seed is. 253. Its nature already considered. 254. Its parts ; Aril 

 occasionally met with. 255. Its coats, and the appendages, wings, &c. 256. Seed-stalk, and scar. 

 257. Kernel. 258. Albumen, sometimes present; its oflSce. 259. Flmbryo, to which all the other parts 

 of the seed, the fruit, and the flower are subservient. 260. Parts of the Embryo: Radicle, or Stem- 

 let ; Cotyledons, or Seed-leaves ; Plumule, or Bud. 



