MULBERBIES AND FIGS 



303 



mato; and then we have the Turk's Cap tomato 

 (Fig. 311), which is sometimes grown as a curi- 

 osity. 



363a. These many-loculed tomatoes may be comparatively seed- 

 less, and now and then a tomato is wholly so; but this seedless- 

 ness is not necessarily a result of the multiplication of the lo- 

 eules. 



Suggestions. — The pupil should now explain the navel orange. 

 The blossom is a normal orange flower, as shown in Fig. 312, 

 producing members as other flowers do. Oranges are illustrated 

 in Figs. 313 and 314; but the pupil will find better ones at the 

 grocer's. 



LVIII. MULBERRIES AND PIGS 



364. Mulberries are monoecious, 

 and the flowers are in catkins. 



Pig. 314. fiG. 315. 



Navel orange. Staminate catkin of mulberry. 



Pig. 316. 



Pistillate catkin 

 of mulberry. 



Fig. 315 is a staminate catkin. One of the flowers 

 is enlarged. It has fdur sepals (for the flowers 

 are apetalous), which are involute about the fila- 



