Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany (1858)
Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 · New York, American Book Company · leaf 89
y is a free or separate calyx, which after flowering be¬ comes thick and fleshy, and encloses the true seed- vessel, as a small pod within. Fig. 218 shows the young pod, partly covered by the loose calyx. Fig. 219 is the ripe checkerberry, cut through the middle lengthwise, the calyx now thick,… … the rim of the deep cup. 220 221 Rose-hip. 247. A Strawberry is an ac¬ cessory fruit of a different shape. Fig. 222 is a forming one, at flowering time, divided lengthwise : below is a part of the calyx ; above this, a large oval or conical receptacle, its whole surface covered with little pistils.…
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