Trees : a handbook of forest-botany for the woodlands and the laboratory.

  • Harry Marshall Ward
Date:
1904-09
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Credit: Trees : a handbook of forest-botany for the woodlands and the laboratory. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Gerstein Science Information Centre at the University of Toronto, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Gerstein Science Information Centre, University of Toronto.

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    velvety-toraentose and about 40 mm. long. The endocarp is fibrous, woody, and much pitted, containing the well- known almond kernel. tt Drupe very small, 2—3 mm., with 2 lateral wing-like appendages, waxy and odorous. Fig. IIS. Primus Amygdalus. A, fruit. B, fruit opened to expose the stone (E and P). Myrica Gale, L. Sweet Gale, Bog Myrtle (Fig. 116). The fruits are solitary in the axils of the scales of small erect catkins, and each results from the maturity of a bicarpellary ovary to which the two bracteoles adhere as wing-like out-growths. (/3) Drupe inferior, crowned with remains of perigone, stamens, &c, [For (tt) t Fruit rounded oblong or ovoid, not corn- see p. 127.] pressed. ® Drupe large, ovoid-oblong, about 50 x 30 mm., with smooth olive exterior, glandular- punctate and aromatic, rapidly blackening when bruised, and containing the well-knovm walnut.
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