JUNIPER : ROSE 



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The false drupe of Jimiperus communis, L., the Juniper 

 (Fig. 128), may also be placed here, though it is really 

 a fleshy cone (Galbulus) with the seeds between the fused 

 scales. The brownish-black "berry," covered with bluish 

 waxy bloom, is sub-globoid, 6 8 mm. long, and marked at 

 the upper part with three triangular projections, the tips 



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Fig. 127. Dog Rose, Rosa canina. 1, flowering shoot ; 2, flower in 

 vertical section; 3, the hip, and 4, the true fruit; 5, the latter in section; 

 0, floral diagram (Wo). 



of the upper fused scales, which must not be confounded 

 with remains of perigone, stigma, &c. ; at the base are 

 a few scarious scales, again not to be confounded with a 

 perianth. Immersed in the fleshy mass formed by the 

 confluent 1 2 whorls of three scales each, are 3 ovoid- 



