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which becomes red and pulpy embracing the seed. In 

 the Strawberry, Fig. 96, what is commo >ly called the 

 berry, is a pulpy receptacle studded with naked seeds. 

 In the Fig, the whole fruit is a juicy calyx, or rather 

 common receptacle, containing in its cavity innumera- 

 ble 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, being 

 as it were a Fig laid open but without any pulp in the 

 common receptacle."* 



Nut, Fig. 94. — The nut is distinguished by its hard 

 firm texture from the preceding varieties of seed ves- 

 sels. It rarely separates into valves, and never spon- 

 taneously separates into more than two pieces. The 

 Filbert and Chesnut are well known examples of nuts, 

 one enclosed in a leaf-like and the other in a prickly 

 calyx. 



Drupe, Fig. 92. — Sometimes the nut is enclosed in 

 pulp, forming a seed vessel which externally resembles 

 the berry, and is denominated the drupe. The Cherry 

 and Peach furnish examples. Sometimes the shell of 

 the Drupe is separable into distant parts, each enclos- 

 ing a seed ; each division is termed Pyrena ; and 

 hence we find fruit described as dipyrenous, tripyrenous 

 &c, according to the number of parts into which it is 

 subdivided. 



Strobile, Fig. 72. — The Strobile or cone is the com- 

 mon receptacle and scales of the Catkin, indurated and 

 much enlarged as in the Pine, being usually conical, 

 ovate or spherical. " In the mature state of the fruit, 

 the scales, which are now closely imbricated, cover the 



* Smith. 



