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When the fruit ripens, it is called a cremocarpj or 

 ** hanging fruit/' because the two carpels (the single 

 seed of each being invested by the pericarp) separate 

 along the liiie of junction called the commissure^ and 



III. V. 



Fig. (>^.— Bu'bon Galba'nu. (Kor description, see text.) 



at first hang on the two branches of a Y-like support, 

 as shown in that of the Fennel (Fig. 64). 



The Y-like carpophore, or " fruit-bearer," is formed 

 out of the four margins of the two carpels which have 

 met and united in the middle. Each half of the fruit 

 is now called a mericarp, i.e. " divided fruit " (Fig. 63, 



