Though in the vast majority of grasses the pericarp is inseparable, in a few cases it is free from the seed-coat as in Sporobolus indicus and Eleusine indica.
Caryopsis a one-celled, one-seeded, superior fruit in which the pericarp has fused with the seed-coat.
Grain is free, rugose, and the pericarp is hyaline and loose.
The seed fills the cavity fully and the pericarp fuses with the seed-coat and so they are inseparable.
Defn: The middle layer of a pericarp which consists of three distinct or dissimilar layers.
It has a papilionaceous flower, and the pericarpis a legume, popularly called a pod.
Having the axis of the seed perpendicular to the axis of the pericarp to which it is attached.
Defn: A simple podlike pericarp which contains several seeds and opens along the inner or ventral suture, as in the peony, larkspur and milkweed.
Defn: The cell of a pericarpin which the seed is lodged.
Many seeds, from the decomposition of the oil contained in the cotyledons, lose the faculty of germination before the rainy season, in which the ligneous integument of the pericarp opens by the effect of putrefaction.
The pericarp of the bertholletia has traces of four cells, and I have sometimes found even five.
The spherical pericarp of the bertholletia, perforated at the summit, is not dehiscent; the upper and swelled part of the columella forms (according to M.
Suka replied: -- Imagine the Bhu-mandala or the Earth chain to be the pericarp of a lotus.
Adepts in Yoga place His feet on the pericarp of the full blown lotus in the heart.
I have observed for several days a species of flax growing in the river bottoms the leaf stem and pericarp of which resembles the common flax cultivated in the U States.
The tissue of the seeds contains a fatty oil, with resin, mucilage and gum, malates and albuminous matter; and in the pericarp there is much tannin.
Pericarp persistent upon the smooth seed; leaves more or less sinuate-dentate (except in C.
Fruit dehiscing irregularly, the pericarp thin, loose and usually roughened; not salt-marsh plants.
Pericarp very easily separated from the seed; leaves entire or rarely sinuate-dentate.
Grain very large, obliquely ovoid, obtusely pointed, rather longer than the glume, the cartilaginous shining pericarp not adherent to the seed.
Fruit of 2 dry seed-like carpels, the pericarp usually with oil-tubes.
Pericarp thin except at the broad corky dorsal and lateral ribs; leaves round-peltate, crenate; peduncles as long as the petioles, from creeping rootstocks.
A fruit the whole pericarp of which is fleshy or pulpy.
Pericarp uniformly corky-thickened and ribs all filiform; leaves not peltate; peduncles much shorter than the petioles.
A grain, as of grasses; a seed-like fruit with a thin pericarp adnate to the contained seed.
Pericarp membranous, globose, of five cells and five compressed valves, the cells fixed to the column, as in Ledum, bursting at the top.
Pericarp round with a point, invested with the calyx, of three cells.
In this specimen a raceme of small flowers was included within the enlargedpericarp of a species of Anchusa.
The somewhat magnified separate fruit (a) shows the thickness of the pericarp and the enclosed seed.
The pericarp is open at the apex; and the elongated tubular apex of the spermoderm passes up to this opening.
That the pericarp was of some thickness, and formed probably a sub-indurated rind, is shown by a specimen preserved in the round, and figured (Fig.
And Naravahanadatta himself ascended the pericarp of the lotus-chariot, and placed his wives on the filaments, and his friends on the leaves, and preceded by Chandasinha and the others, set out through the air to conquer his enemies.
Fruit nearly inclosed while young in the thickened tube of the calyx, exserted at maturity, surrounded at base by the cup-like truncate or slightly lobed calyx-tube; pericarp thin and fleshy.
A hard and indehiscent 1-seeded pericarp produced from a compound ovary.
Fruit 2-celled, broad-ovoid, crowned with the remnants of the persistent style; pericarp spongy.
Dehiscent into the cavity of a pericarp by the back, that is through a dorsal suture.
Fruit ovoid, surrounded at base by the enlarged and thickened truncate or lobed tube of the calyx, yellow-green sometimes more or less tinged with purple; pericarp thin and fleshy.
The pericarpof Sapindus emarginatus mixed with water froths like soap.
Its fleshy pericarp yields by expression olive oil, of which the finest comes from Provence and Florence.
This is apt to mislead; for the plant grows above ground as other pulse, whereas only its seed and pericarpare inserted, after blooming, into the earth.
From the pericarp or fleshy part of the fruit of the Melia Azederachta, the well known Margosa oil is prepared; which is cheap and easily procurable in Ceylon.
Those of which the most conspicuous portion, although appearing like a pericarp in some cases, does not belong to the pistil (Rose-hip).
The parts of the pericarp are epicarp, or outer coat; mesocarp, or middle coat; and endocarp, or inner coat.
The pericarp is membranaceous, and adheres to the seed, forming a kind of caryopsides.
The nuts are picked by hand or gathered by means of long hooks and the thick pericarp removed.
At maturity the pericarp splits in halves from the top to the base or point of attachment.
The sidelong looks of the beautiful eyes in their faces, look like a cluster of black bees, sitting on the pericarp of a full blown lotus.
Our consciousness is seated in the pericarp of the lotus of our hearts, with the knowledge of our endless desires budding about it, and viewing the countless worlds turning round like a rosary of lotus seeds.
It has the great mount of Meru situated in its midst, like the bright pericarp amidst the cell of the lotus flower.
A pericarp made up of scales that lie one over an other.
From such observations the conclusion has been drawn that in the pericarp of the rice grain there are certain substances essential to the maintenance of health and that their withdrawal from the diet leads to nutritional disturbances.
Most flowers have the fruit case in the middle, or it may be the flower is on the top of the pericarp as in pomegranate, apple, pear, plum, and myrtle .
It is from the usage of Theophrastus that the exact definition of fruit and pericarp has come down to us.
The ovary ripens into a usually small ovoid or rounded fruit, which is entirely occupied by the single large seed, from which it is not to be distinguished, the thin pericarp being completely united to its surface.
Fruit of Sporobolus, showing the dehiscent pericarpand seed.
Sometimes the pericarp is membranous, sometimes hard, forming a nut, as in some genera of Bambuseae, while in other Bambuseae it becomes thick and fleshy, forming a berry often as large as an apple.
