DIFFERENT KINDS OF FRUIT. 



CHAPTER XXV. 



DIFFERENT KINDS OF FRUIT. 



IN the later summer days, 

 when the fruits are 

 ripening, you will now 

 be able to work through 

 the following list of the 

 most common kinds of 

 simple and compound fruit. 



I. Dry fruits (generally 

 dehiscent and many seeded}. 



( i ) The legume * or pod 

 is a simple fruit (p. 137), 

 which opens along both 

 sutures, dorsal and ventral, 

 Fig. 123. Poppy (Papaver\ S o that it splits into halves. 



with syncarpous chambered 



capsule at c. Sometimes the legume 



is twisted. Sometimes it is jointed or narrowed 

 between the seeds, as in the bird's foot (Ornithopus). 

 It is then called a lomentum\ (Fig. 173). It does 



* From the Latin " legumen " (fr. "lego" I gather), pulse, peas, beans 

 c., gathered by hand. 



fFrom the Latin " lomentum," bean meal. 



