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THE FRUIT. 



and of certain species of Honeysuckle, formed of the ovaries 

 of two blossoms united into one fleshy fruit. The more usual 

 sorts are such as the pine-apple, mulberry, and the fig. These 

 arc. in lad. dense forms of inflorescence, with the fruits or Moral 

 envelopes matted together or coherent with cadi other: and all 

 or some of the parts succulent. The grains of tin- mulberry 

 (Fig. (',:>[-('>:>('>) are not the ovaries of a singJe flower, like those 



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of the blackberry, which it superficially resembles: they belong 

 to as many separate Mowers : and the pulp pertains to the calyx, 

 not to the pericarp, which is an akene. So that this, like most 

 multiple fruits, is anthocarpous as well as multiple. Similarly, 

 the mostly indefinite fructiferous masses of Strawberry Elite may 

 resemble strawberries: but the pulpy part is the calyx of many 

 Mowers, not the succulent receptacle of one. In the pine-apple, 

 the Mowers arc spicate or capitate on a simple axis, which grows 

 on beyond them into leafy stem; this when rooted as a cutting 



:;. Fruit compound (ovaria compound), SYNCARPI ; 4. Collective fruits, 



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loiter, in his "Elements of Rot.-iuy." I.imllev reduced tlie classes to 

 two: 1. Siiiif/i' />///'/*. tlmsc prne.cedinir from a single flower; 2. Multifile 

 i/lfi, those formed out of several flowers. 



FIC. r,.->J. A mulberry. young. 055. One of the tlcsliy grains :il (lowering time, show- 

 in ,' it lo !>' n i'i<tillat,- lil MI,, with llcsliv calyx. f-."il. Tlic .-.-1111. later, with thn succu- 

 lent sepals in transverse section. 



FIC. r>.". A yoiini; tig. f.r>S. Longitudinal section of the s;unc later, but in flowering 

 time. !>.">!>. A small slice, magnified, showing some of the flowers. 



