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STKUCTUKAL BOTANY. 



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168. The Regma is a kind of capsule like that of 

 the Geranium, whose dehiscent carpels separate elastic- 

 ally, but still remain attached to the carpophore. 



169. Strobile, or Cone; an aggregate fruit consist- 

 ing of a conical or oval mass of imbricated scales, each 

 an open carpel ( $ flower), bearing seeds on its inner 

 side at base, i. e., axillary seeds (Pine and the G-ymno- 

 sperms generally). The Cone (syncarpium, ovv, togeth- 

 er) of the Magnolia tribe is a mass of confluent, closed 

 pericarps on a lengthened torus (Cucumber Tree). 



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194, Strobile of Pinus. 19f , The Fig (syconus). 196, Sorosis of Mulberry. 197, Hip of Rosa, achenia 

 nearly inclosed in the leathery calyx tube. 



170. The Fig (syconium) is an aggregate fruit, con- 

 sisting of numerous seed-like akenes inclosed within 

 a hollow, fleshy receptacle, where the flowers were 

 attached. 



171. Other confluent fruits (Sorosis) consist of the 

 entire inflorescence developed into a mass of united 

 pericarps, as in the Mulberry, Osage-orange, Pineapple. 



