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441 445 448 444 443 



fruits. 441, Eteerio of Rutins strigosus (Blackberry). 442, Pepo; section of cucumber. 449, 

 Berry, Grape. 443, Pome, Crataegus (Haw). 444, Pyxis of Jeffersonia. 443, Legume of Pe* 

 446, Louient of Desmodium. 44T, Silique of Sinapis. 44S, Silicic of Capsella. 



is a mass of confluent, closed pericarps on a lengthened torus (cucum- 

 ber tree). 



580. The fig (syconus) is an aggregate fruit, consisting of numer- 

 ous seed-like pericarps inclosed within a hollow, fleshy receptacle where 

 the flowers were attached. 



581. Other confluent fruits (sorosis) consist of the entire in- 

 florescence developed into a mass of united pericarps, as in the mul- 

 berry, osage-orange, pine-apple. 



449, bis, Strobile of Pinus. 450, The Fig (syconus). 451, Sorosis of Mulberry. 452, Hip of Boaa, 

 achmia nearly inclosed in the leathery calyx tubo. 



