3 FLOWER-LAND. 



The fruit of the common pea or bean is another 

 good instance of a single pistil or seed bag. You 

 call it a pod (Fig. 15, d\ and inside you find the peas 

 or beans its many seeds. We may find examples in 

 the fruit of the vetch, or the gorse. 



Now if we could find a poppy, or a foxglove, I 

 could show you another kind of fruit. It is a fruit of 

 many pistils or seed bags, only instead of being 

 separate, as in the buttercup, 

 they are enclosed within a skin 

 or covering. In the poppy, 

 the fruit is like a round parch- 

 ment box with a flat top to 

 it. When it is ripe, there are 

 holes at the top, out of which 

 you can shake many seeds from 

 the different divisions or bags 

 Fig. 26. Fruit of Poppy, which are inside (Fig. 26). 



Sometimes fruit of this kind is not altogether dry 

 like the poppy. There is the same arrangement of 

 pistil or seed bags in an outer skin in the juicy fruit 

 you know so well the orange. I dare say you have 

 often first peeled off the rind or skin, and then 

 separated and eaten one by one the little juicy bags 

 in which you found the pips or seed. 



Then there are the berries we know so well, such as 

 the fruit of the currant, grape, or gooseberry. 



There are still some other kinds of fruit, and each 

 kind has its own special name, but I only want you 



