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*' to, cujus baccae calyces funt fliccu- 

 " lent! ; minime pericarpia, feu ova- 

 "ria"* 



34. For I am at a lofs to find where- 

 in Tournefort was deceived. He gives 

 ail accurate defcription, as well as elegant 

 figures, of the parts of the flower and 

 fruit, as flanding on different plants f , 

 without which the charadler of the hu- 

 iilulus, in Linnaci Genera Plantarum \ 

 is not very intelligible to a beginner. 

 But he calls the enlarged calyx, fru^um : 

 The cones he calls fru6ius ; and fo they 

 are in the moft proper fenfe of the word. 

 Linnaeus himfelf in his fiindamenta hot, 

 teaches, that *' effentia frucSlus in femine 

 *• confiftit" II ; and in his Philojophia Bo' 

 tanica **, *' fruclus ex femine five peri- 

 *' carpio, five non teclum fit, dignofcitur." 

 No matter therefore, whether ye call thefe 

 cones calyces elongatos, or fruBiUf if they 



contain 



* Amaen. acad. i. p. 99. 

 t Vid. T. p. 535. t, 309. 



t P 477. 

 II § 83. 



