Leaflets thin, the petioles and pedicels nearly glabrous or with appressed hairs; fruit conic, the achenes on its surface =Wood Strawberry, Fragaria americana.
Leaflets thick and firm, the petioles and pedicels pubescent with spreading or ascending hairs; fruit subglobose, the achenes embedded in pits on its surface =Strawberry, Fragaria virginiana.
Achenes turbinate, 5-angled; pappus of 5--7 short roundish chaff and as many alternating bristles.
Pistils 1--4; the slender style arising from near the base; achenes included in the tube of the persistent calyx.
Achenes ribbed; pappus of capillary bristles, in the sterile plant scanty and tortuous; in the fertile very long and copious.
In Carthamus and some other Compositae the central achenes alone are furnished with a pappus; and in Hyoseris the same head yields achenes of three different forms.
It is a more curious fact, previously referred to, that the achenes or seeds of the circumference and centre sometimes differ greatly in form, colour and other characters.
In both species the achenesof the ray have no pappus, but those of the disc have a pappus of stiff hairs in several rows.
Its carpels are smooth, and form a globular head; and the ripened achenes are also smooth.
The fleshy part consists of the modified upper end of the flower stalk or receptacle, while the true fruits are the dry achenes on or embedded in the surface and popularly called the seeds.
Two types of achenes of the daisy family tipped with plumed bristles, greatly aiding their carriage by the wind.
Only the achenes on the strawberry are true fruits, the fleshy part being merely a development of the upper part of the flower stalk and not of the ovary (Figure 52).
In Dorstenia the achenesare situated on a flat or slightly concave receptacle.
The styles occasionally remain attached to the achenes in the form of feathery appendages, as in Clematis.
In these cases there are usually two achenes united, one of which, however, as in Fraxinus (fig.
Flowers white; achenes nearly identical with those last described, Erigeron annuus, bristles shorter, less diverging, surface bearing more minute appressed hairs when seen under a lens.
Achenes light brown, conspicuously marked by white spots some of which coalesce making the surface striped crosswise, obovate-oblong, pointed at the smaller end, 1.
Achenes narrower and rather shorter than those of G.
A genus of herbaceous composite plants, having the achenes two-horned and remotely resembling some insect; tickseed.
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