286 THE STROBILUS. 



analogy shows to be bracteas ; and I can- 

 not bat think Jussieu and Gaertner more 

 correct in their ideas of this singular fruit, 

 when they call the pulpy part in- question 

 a receptacle, though the term calyx seems 

 less paradoxical, and is perhaps still more 

 just*. We do not know enough of Taxus 

 tiucifera to draw any conclusions from 

 thence. See Gcertner, t. 91. In the Straw- 

 berry, Engl. Bot. t. 1524, what is com- 

 monly called the berry is a pulpy recepta- 

 cle, studded with naked seeds. In the 

 Fig, Gcertntr, ^.91? the whole fruit is a 

 juicy calyx, or rather common receptacle, 

 containing in its cavity innumerable florets, 

 each of which has a proper calyx of its 

 own, that becomes pulpy and invests the 

 seed, as in its near relation the Mulberry. 

 The Paper Mulberry of China is indeed an 

 intermediate genus between the two, be- 

 ing as it were a Fig laid open, but with- 

 out any pulp in the common receptacle. 



7- Strobilus, a Cone, is a Catkin hardened 



* Hernandia, Gcertn, t. 40, has a similar, though 

 not succulent, calyx, and thr green cup of the Hazle- 

 nut is equivalent to it. 



