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THE FRUIT. 



[LESSON 20. 



283). Often it adheres both to the calyx and to the ovary, as in 

 New Jersey Tea, the Apple, &c., consolidating the whole together. 

 In such cases it is sometimes carried up and expanded on the top of 



the ovary, as in the Parsley and 

 the Ginseng families, when it is 

 said to be epigynous (273). 



332. In Nelumbium, a large 

 Water-Lily, abounding in the wa- 

 288 283 ters of our Western States, the 



singular and greatly enlarged receptacle is shaped like a top, and 

 bears the small pistils immersed in separate cavities of its flat upper 

 surface (Fig. 284). 



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LESSON XX. 



THE FRUIT. 



333. THE ripened ovary, with its contents, becomes the Fruit. 

 When the tube of the calyx adheres to the ovary, it also becomes 

 a part of the fruit : sometimes it even forms the principal bulk of it, 

 as in the apple and pear. 



334. Some fruits, as they are commonly called, are not fruits at 

 all in the strict botanical sense. A strawberry, for example (as 

 we have just seen, 330, Fig. 282), although one of the choicest fruits 

 in the common acceptation, is only an enlarged and pulpy receptacle, 

 bearing the real fruits (that is, the ripened pistils) scattered over its 



FIG. 282. Flower of a Buckthorn, with a large perigynous disk. 283. The same, divided. 

 FIG. 284. Receptacle of Nelumbium, in fruit. 



