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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. 
, 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. 
Analysis of the Section, 
Fruits are . 
Simple Fruits are 
§ 1. Table of Kinds of Fruit. 
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 more than 
one flower, . 248 
' Fleshy Fruits (222), such as the 
Stone-Fruits, or the . 
Dry Fruits, 227, < 
Indehiscent, 228, 
Dehiscent, or Pods, 233, 
' Of a Simple 
Pistil, 
of a Compound 
Pistil, 
Berry, 
Pepo, 
Pome, 
Drupe, 
Akene, 
Grain, 
Nut, 
l Key, 
Follicle, 235 
Legume, 236 
Capsule, 237 
Silique, 240 
SlLICLE, 241 
223 
224 
225 
226 
229 
230 
231 
232 
. Pyxis, 
242 
Cone, 
250 
254. Its parts ; 
Aril 
Multiple Fruits are ! Angiospermous, or closed 219, 248. 
( Gymnospermous, or naked-seeded, 218, 219, 
§2. Seeds. — 252. What a seed is. 253. Its nature already considered, 
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 
©f the seed, the fruit, and the flower are subservient. 260. Parts of the Embryo : Radicle, or Stem 
Jet; Cotyledons, or Seed-leaves; Plumule, or Bud. 
