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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' -«hed ; the seed-vessel, to protect it and to nourish it while forming ; the stamens 

 and pistil, to originate it. 



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

 which the root starts, from the other the stem is continued ; also of one or more 

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

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

 mencement of this book. 



Fr^iits are 



Simple Fruits are 



Multiple Fruits are 



Fleshy Fruits (222), such as the 

 Stone-Fruits, or the . 



( Berry, 

 \ Pepo, 

 ' Pome, 



Analysis of the Section. 



§ 1. Table of. Kinds of Feuit. 



Piiragr, 



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



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



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



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



one flower, . 248 



Berry, 223 

 224 

 226 



Drupe, 226 

 f Akene, 229 

 j Grain, 280 

 j Nut, 231 

 \ Key, 232 



I Folhcle,235 

 ( Legume, 236 

 ' Capsule, 237 



Silique, 240 



Silicle, 241 

 . Pyxis, 242 



Cone, 250 



Dry Fruits, 227, 



' Indehiscent, 228, 



. Dehiscent, or Pods, 233, ' 



' Of a Simple 

 Pistil, 



of a Compound 

 Pistil, 



{ Angiospermous, or closed, 



219, 248. 



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



§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. 

 267. Kernel. 268. Alhumen, sometimes present; its office. 259. Embryo, to which all the other parts 

 of the seed, the fruit, and the flower are subservient. 260. P.arts of the Embryo; Radicle, or Stem- 

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



