FORMATION OP FRUITS 



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Can you find all parts of the flower in the ripened fruit ? 



unopened pods. If the pod is opened, the seeds will be found 

 fastened to the ovary wall each by a little stalk called the funiculus 

 (f u-nik'u-rws). That part of the ovary wall which bears the seeds is 

 the placenta (pld-sen'td). The walls of the pod are called valves. 



The pod, which is in reality a ripened ovary with other parts 

 of the flower attached to it, is considered a fruit. By definition, 

 a fruit is a ripened ovary together with any parts of the flower that 



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Why have so few grains appeared in this ear of corn ? Remember the corn cob bears 

 pistillate flowers ; the " silks " are the long styles with stigmas at the tips. 



