OUTLINE OF STRUCTURAL BOTANY 37 
ARRANGEMENT OF FLOWERS 
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THE FRUIT, 
As the ovules, under the fertilizing influence of the pollen 
advance toward maturity, they and the immediate envelopes which 
enclose them become modified and are known as the fruit. 
While in fact the maturing seed with its immediate protecting 
membranes is the fruit, popularly the fleshy or pulpy modification 
of some accessory part is regarded as the fruit. Thus, in the 
strawberry the little hard shining bodies are the real fruit while 
