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THE FRUIT 307 
Mu tiple Fruits.—The Syconrum is a multiple fruit con- 
sisting of a succulent, hollow torus enclosed within which are 
akene-like bodies, products of many flowers. Example: Fig. 
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The Sorosis is represented by the Mulberry, Osage Orange, 
etc., the grains of which are not the ovaries of a single flower, as in 
the Blackberry, but belong to as many separate flowers. In the 
Pineapple all the parts are blended into a fleshy, juicy, seedless 
mass, and the plant is propagated by cuttings. 
Fic, 232.—Miultiple fruits. 1, Syconium of Fig cut vertically to show hollowed 
out receptacle (r) of ripened flower cluster; 2, strobile of the Hop; 3, galbulus of 
Juniper. 
The STROBILE or Cone is a scaly, multiple fruit consisting of a 
scale-bearing axis, each scale enclosing one or more seeds. The 
name is applied to the fruit of the Hop, Fig. 232 (2), and also to 
the fruit of the Conzfere in which the naked seeds are borne on the 
upper surface of the woody scales. 
A GaLsBuLus is a more or less globular multiple fruit formed of 
three fleshy connate scales each bearing a seed on its upper or 
inner surface, as in Juniper, Fig. 232 (3). 
HistoLocy oF A CAPSULE, VANILLA.—The vanilla fruit is a 
one-celled capsule formed by the union of three carpellary leaves 
and dehiscing by two unequal longitudinal valves. 
Microscopic APPEARANCE OF A TRANSVERSE SECTION.—Pass- 
ing from periphery toward the center, the following structures 
present themselves: 
