SPURIOUS KINDS OF BACC^. ^85 



Mag. t. 276, the Calyx after flowering 

 becomes coloured and very juicy, invest- 

 ing t^ie seed, like a genuine berry. The 

 Corolla of Commdina Zanonia undergoes 

 a similar change, forming a black very 

 juicy coat to the capsule, being totally al- 

 tered both in shape and substance from its 

 appearance in the flower. In the Juniper, 

 Engl. BoL t. 1100, a few scales of the 

 fertile catkin become succulent, and coalesce 

 into a globular berry with three or more 

 seeds, to which Gaerlner applies the term 

 galbiiliis, the classical name of the Cypress 

 fruit, which last however is as true a stro- 

 bilus or cone as that of the Fir. In the 

 Yew, t. 746, some have thought it a calyx, 

 others a peculiar kind of receptacle, which 

 becomes red and pulpy, embracing the 

 seed. Lamarck has, in his Fiiicy dope die, 

 v.S. 2^8, considered this fruit as a real 

 bacca or drupa, with the idea or definition 

 of either of w hich 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 



