THE FRUIT. 



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141. The column is the axis. In the orange it can be 

 seen like a tough string of fresh pith running through the 

 center, or like the core in an apple. When divisions, as in 

 the orange, extend from the suture to the column, they are 

 called disseinments, and form the cells in which the seed 

 are found; when they run lengthwise, they are called 

 longitudinal, and when across from side to side, transverse. 



142. Pericarps are further distinguished into drupe 



Fig. 98. 



Fig. 99. 



Fig. 102. 



Fig. 103. 



Fig. 1(M. 



Fig. 105. 



(Fig. 98), nut or glans (Fig. 99), pome (Fig. 100), berry 

 (Fig. 101), pod or legume (Fig. 102), follicle (Fig. 103), 



141. What is the colnmn ? How in the orange ? Apple ? What are the sepa- 

 rating walls called? When lengthwise? When crosswise ? 



1 42. How are pericarps further distinguished ? W^hat is a drupe ? 



