FALSE DRUPES 133 



* False drupe black, sub-globoid, 6 8mm. 

 long, and containing 2 5 seeds. 



t Fruits dull black-olive in simple umbels, 

 with 2 5 seeds in as many parchment-like 

 cells. 



Hedera Helix, L. Ivy (Fig. 124). 

 Sambucus, with usually 3 stone-like seeds in the 

 berry, may also be looked for here. 



ft Fruit black, shining, in corymbose-cymes, 

 with one 2-chambered stone, containing two 

 seeds. 



Cornus sanguined, L. Dogwood, Cornel (Fig. 125). The 

 fact that there is but one common stony covering to the 

 two seeds suggests that it should go on p. 126 near 

 Viburnum Opulus. 



** False drupe scarlet or crimson, 7 10 mm. 

 long, and containing 2 5 seeds. 



t Fruit globoid, 6 7 mm. long. Fleshy cover- 

 ing (hypanthium) open above, exposing the 

 tips of the 2 5 stones in a crater bordered 

 by the remains of the sepals and stamens. 



Cotoneaster vulgaris, Lindl. Cotoneaster. The fruits 

 proper are the stones, each of which is developed from 

 one carpel ; around these the calyx-tube has risen as a 

 fleshy cup, bearing the sepals and stamens on its margin, 

 and forming the globoid, mealy -fleshy false fruit (hyp- 

 anthium). 



ft Fruit globoid, 10 mm. Fleshy covering 

 closed in over the usually 2 stones. 



Cratcegus Oxyacantha, L. Hawthorn, Whitethorn (Fig. 

 126). The mode of development is as in Cotoneaster, but 

 the calyx-tube closes in more completely above, carrying the 

 sepals and stamens to the top. Flesh and stones yellowish, 



