98 THE STORY: OF /PLANT Eire 
long. They are reproduced by creeping stems as by 
runners in the case of a strawberry, or suckers as in 
a raspberry. The flowers are terminal, in cymes or 
racemes, variable in form and structure. 
The receptacle is often hollowed, with a cone in 
the centre bearing the carpels, or they may be united 
to the receptacle and inferior. 
The receptacle forms part of the fruit in many cases. 
The sepals are five, with an epicalyx of smaller outer 
leaves in Potentilla, and imbricate. The imbricate 
petals are fiveinnumber. There are two, three or four 
times as many anthers as there are petals, or they may 
be indefinite, and bent inwards in the bud. The 
carpels exceed the petals two to three times or are in- 
definite or one to four. The fruit is an achene, drupe, 
or pome. Usually the anthers are ripe first. In 
Great Burnet the flower is wind-pollinated. The 
honey is easily accessible, and the flowers much visited. 
THE CHERRY (Prunus Avium).. 
The Gean, as this wild cherry is also called, is much 
more common than the cherry (P. Cerasus), which is 
the origin of many of our garden forms. 
Most boys know the whereabouts of a cherry-tree 
in their school-boy days to which they repair at the 
right season, as they do to the Crab tree later in the 
year to obtain the fruit. I remember some very tall 
cherry-trees which used to grow upon the summit of 
Box Hill in Surrey, to which we were allowed as a 
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