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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 protect it and to nourish it while forming ; the stamens 

 and pistil, to originate it. 



2 GO. The enabi'yo 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. 



Fruits are 



Simple Fruits are 



Analysis of the Section. 



§ 1. Table of Kinds of Fruit. 



Paragr. 



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



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



one flower, . . 248 



223 

 224 

 225 

 226 

 229 

 230 

 231 

 233 



Fleshy Fruits (222), such as the 

 Stone-Fruits, or the . 



Dry Fruits, 227, 



Indehiscent, 228, 



Dehiscent, or Pods, 233, 



219, 248. 



I Berry, 

 < Pepo, 

 ' Pome, 

 Drupe, 



IAkene, 

 Grain, 

 Nut, 

 Key, 



Of a Simple j Follicle,235 

 Pistil, 1 Legume, 236 



I Capsule, 237 

 SiLIQUE, 240 

 Silicle, 241 

 Pyxis, 242 



Cone, 250 



Multiple Fruits are I Angiospermons, or closed 



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



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

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

 257. Kernel. 258. Albumen, sometimes present^ its office. 259. Embryo, to which all the other parts 

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

 <Bt; Cotyledons, or Seed-leaves; Plumule, or Bud. 



