How to know wild fruits - 1914 Author:Maude Gridley Peterson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The fruit is the ripened ovary, its contents, and any other parts that are closely connected with it. A berry is rather thin-skinned, and has its seeds loosel... more »y imbedded in soft pulpy or succulent material. An orange, a grape, a currant, are illustrations. A drupe has for its distinguishing feature a stone inclosing the seed. The portion surrounding it may be fleshy, as in the peach; fibrous, as in the cocoanut; or leathery, as in the walnut. A pome has its seeds and their cartilaginous or bony surrounding membranes inclosed in a fleshy mass, which is thickened calyx or sometimes partly receptacle. Apple, pear, and quince are examples. Aggregate fruits are masses of several carpels of the same flower which, when ripe, may or may not remain fast to the receptacle on which they are borne. Raspberry and blackberry are familiar examples. Multiple fruits are compact masses of the ripened product of many flowers. Pineapple and mulberry are the usual illustrations. Accessory fruits are simple fruits which have incorporated with them, as part of their mass, the developed surroundings or supports of the pistil. Gaultheria has its capsule surrounded by thickened fleshy calyx. GUIDE TO PLANT FAMILIES REPRESENTED I. GYMNOSPERME ,,/-, . 3 , i ,-, Page Of Familiu " Ovules naked upon a scale, bract, or disk. AND Species Globose, formed by coalescence of fleshy scales. 1 to 6 bony seeds. Pinace/e xxxii Cup-shaped fleshy disk nearly inclosing bony seed. Taxace.k .... xxxii II. ANGIOSPERMa; Pistil consists of closed ovary containing the ovules and becoming the fruit. 1. MONOCOTYLEDONES Stem without central pith or annual layers, but with vascular bundles scattered through them. Leaves are mostly parallel-veined. Parts of flowers usually arranged...« less