184 



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. 



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. 



Fruits are 



Simple Fruits are 



Analysis of the Section. 



5 1. Table of Kixds of Feuit. 



Paragr 



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



2. Aggregated; 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 move than 



one flower, 



Fleshy Fruits (222), such as the 

 Stone-Fruits, or the . 



Dry Fruits, 227, 



Indehiscent, 228, 



Dehiscent, or Pods, 233, 



Berry, 

 Pepo, 

 Pome, 

 Drupe, 

 ( Aki-:ne, 



r 



248 



223 

 224 

 225 

 226 

 229 

 230 

 231 

 233 



' Of a Simple 

 I'iitil, 



of a Compound 

 Pistil, 



Grain, 

 Nut, 



IVEY, 



Follicle,235 

 Legume, 236 

 Capsule, 237 

 Silique, 240 



1 SiLICLE, 241 



' " 242 



Multiple Fruits are 



I. Pyxis, 

 Cone, 



; Angiospermous, or closed, 219, 248. , 



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



§2. Seeds. — 262. 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. 

 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; Radicle, or Stem- 

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



