Principles and rudiments of mineralogy, botany, zoology / by C.R.W. Watkins.
- Watkins, Charles R.W.
- Date:
- 1855
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Principles and rudiments of mineralogy, botany, zoology / by C.R.W. Watkins. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![quadripartite, or tetra-petalous; quinque-partite, or quinque- petalous. Also, multi-petalous, multi-filamentous; multi- frond, or multi-partite. Of the Amentum, or Seed Vessel. The parts of the Amentum, or fructiferous portion of the Kalyx are— 1. The Basis, Disk, or Iulum, supporting the Fruit, Seeds, or Vegetative Ovum. 2. The Loculamenta, or cells containing the Seeds. 3. The External Pulp, or Internal Pulp, Pome, juice, pith, Cotton, Frumental Seeds, and other portions of the Cereal, or Harvest, and Garden Fruits. 5. The Husk, or exterior tegument of the Fruit or Seed. The remarkable diversities of the Amentum, Seed-vessel, or Receptacle of the Seed, and Multiform Vegetative Offspring, are,— ]. The Pome-Amentum, consisting of the External Pome, and the Internal Membranous Cells; containing the Seeds of the Plant—videlicet, of the Apple, Pear, Haw, Rose, &c. 2. The Mor-Amentum—videlicet, the Morum, or Pulpy re- ceptacle and Seed-vessel of the Mulberry, Raspberry, Straw- berry, Blackberry. • 3. The Bacca-Amentum—consisting of the External Pulp, and the internal Stony Shell, enclosing the Seed, or Ovum of the Cherry, Plum, Peach, Mango, trees, &c. 4. The Drupa-Amentum, ditto of the oval olive. 5. The nucamentum—Shell, or hard oviform membrane and receptacle, enclosing the internal pome and seed of the filbert, cocoa-nut, &c. 6. The uva-amentum—videlicet, the juicy receptacle of the grape, currant, gooseberry, seeds.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22316784_0029.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
