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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 . 
' Indehiscent, 228, 
Dry Fruits, 227, 
' Of a Simple 
Pistil, 
Dehiscent, or Pods, 233, 
of a Compound 
Pistil, 
Berry, 
223 
Pepo, 
224 
Pome, 
225 
Drupe, 
226 
Akene, 
229 
Grain, 
230 
Nut, 
231 
Key, 
232 
Follicle,235 
Legume, 
236 
Capsule, 
237 
SlLIQUE, 
240 
SlLICLE, 
241 
Pyxis, 
242 
Multiple Fruits are f Angiospermous, or closed, 219,248. 
( Gymnospermous, or naked-seeded, 218, 219, .... Cone, 250 
§2. Seeds. — 252. 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- 
let; Cotyledons, or Seed-leaves; Plumule, or Bud. 
