The elements of botany : structural and physiological : with a sketch of the artificial modes of classification, and a glossary of technical terms / by John Lindley.

  • John Lindley
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1861
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    G21. The most remarkable modifications of multiple or anthocarpous fruits are, the Cone (622), Pine-apple (G23), and Fig (G24). 622. The Cone-'^' is an indurated amentum (371); Ex. Pinus. Wlien it is much reduced in size, and its scales firmly cohere, it is called a Galbulus ; Ex. Juniperus. 623. The Pine-apple is a spike of inferior flowers, which all grow together into a fleshy mass. 624. The Fig is the fleshy, hollow, dilated apex of a peduncle, within which a number of flowers are arranged, each of which contains an achje- nium ; Ex. Ficus, Dorstenia-^--^. Of the terms above explained only a few are in common use, and it seems to be found by systematic botanists more convenient to describe a given finit by exact words than to use any ])articular term. The names most employed are the Achajuium, Nut, Oaryopsis, Drupe, Capsule, Siliqua, Legume, and Cone.