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THE FRUIT. 



and. slightly cohering together (though vrithout organic union), 

 they tail as OIK- body from UK- conical dry torus at maturity. It 

 is the same in blackberries or brambli --berries <Fig. I'.K'.. C-17), 

 except that the drupelets persist on the to.'iis. which partakes of 

 the juiciness. 1 In the aggregate fruit of Magnolia (Fig. <;iN-r,:>0), 

 such carpels, imbricated over one another, cohere inure or le-- 



at all contiguous pails, and 

 become drupaceous ; never- 

 theless, at maturity each 

 opens dorsally. allowing the 

 seeds to fall out : in age it 

 dries and hardens, and also 

 separates from its connec- 

 tions, and so be- 

 comes a follicle, but 

 with the remark- 

 able peculiarity of 

 dorsal instead of 

 ventral dehiscence. 

 (Fig. C")0.) In Li- 

 riodendron. a tree 

 of the same family, 

 such carpels are 

 dry and indehiscent throughout ; and they largely consist of long 

 and flat styles, imbricated in a cone, but separating from each 

 other and from the slender torus at maturity, when each becomes 



a samara. 



580. Accessory or Anthocarpons Fruits are those of which some 

 conspicuous portion of the fructification neither belongs to the 

 pistil nor is organically unite. 1 with it. except by a common 

 insertion. The part thus imitating a fruit, while it is really no 

 part of the pericarp, is sometimes called a Pseudocarp, or an 

 .\nthocarp or Anlhocarpium. This condition may occur either 

 in simple, in aggregate, or in multiple fruits. 



1 Tin' aT'.nvMtc fruit like that of Kubiis (named by some Conocar/iiiiin, 

 by others an . /'/< rio, Kri/tJtroxtoniuin, &c.) was termed by Dumortier a Drupe- 

 Inn,. A similar aggregation of baccate carpels lie termed a lla,;;lnm ; of 

 follicles, a FolKcetum, &<. All such names may look well in a system; but 

 they are both superfluous and unmanageable in phytography. 



FIG. G4S. A"!_'r"::it,' fruit of Unil>rpll!i-trn>. Magnolia t T inbrrll:i. n-.luoed in size; a 

 seed from a lower .l.-Viscrn' .-arpd linngs on a tlnvad (diiMstini: of a tnft of extensile 

 spiral ducts iinr.avrllc.1. C.J'.i. Same in ]onirituilin:il M-i'tii.n. C.r.n. one ..f tin- carpels 

 detached, .-t full maturity, dried up, dorsally dehiscent, exposing the pair of seeds of 

 the natural size. 



