. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. Fig. of fig. MULBERRIES AXJ1 FIGS 305 void body with a hole in the top. The pupilwill be puzzled by it, for the fig seems to beneither perianth nor pistil. 368. If a young fig were cut across (Fig. 319),it would be seen to contain numerous flowers(both staminate and pistillate) upon the of the pistillate flowers ripens a little fig is, therefore, a receptacle lined with flow-ers, and the receptacle comprises most of theedible portion. 369. The fig and mulberry
. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. Fig. of fig. MULBERRIES AXJ1 FIGS 305 void body with a hole in the top. The pupilwill be puzzled by it, for the fig seems to beneither perianth nor pistil. 368. If a young fig were cut across (Fig. 319),it would be seen to contain numerous flowers(both staminate and pistillate) upon the of the pistillate flowers ripens a little fig is, therefore, a receptacle lined with flow-ers, and the receptacle comprises most of theedible portion. 369. The fig and mulberry are closely belong to the same natural family. Theplan and structure of the flowers are very both produce multiple or collective fruits, theentire flower becoming more or less thickened andfleshy; but in the one the flowers are borneupon the inside of an enormously-developed recep-tacle, and in the other they are borne upon aslender stem-like axis. The fig fruit is- called asyconium. We thus have another illustration ofthe fact that the plan of the flower is more im-porta
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