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berry with three or more seeds, to which Gaertner ap- 

 plies the term galbidus, the classical name of the 

 Cypress fruit, which last however is as true a strobilus 

 or cone as that of the Fir. In the Yew, t. 746, some 

 have thought it a calyx, others a peculiar kind of le- 

 ceptacle, which becomes red and pulpy, embracing 

 the seed. Lamarck has in his Encyclopklie, v. 3, 

 228, considered this fruit as a real bacca or drupa^ 

 with the idea or definition of cither of which it cannot 

 by any means be made to accord, being open at the 

 top, and having no connection with the stigma, which 

 crowns the seed itself. The same writer mistakes for 

 a calyx the scales which analogy shows to be bracte- 

 as ; and I cannot think Jussieu and Gsertner 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 nuajera to draw any conclusions from thence. 

 See Grertner, t.9\. In the Strawberry, Engl. Bot. 

 t. 1524, what is commonly called the berry is a pulpy 

 receptable, studded with naked seeds. In the Fig, 

 Gcertner, t. 91, the whole fruit is a juicy calyx, or 

 rather common receptacle, containing in its cavity in- 

 numerable 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 



* Hernandia, Gcertn. t. 40, has a similar, though not succu- 

 lent, calyx, and the green cup of the Hazel-nut is equivalent to 

 it. 



