ANGIOCARPS. 



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Fig. 79. 



a 



cut (Fig. 79), is a 

 spherical berry, a, 

 of the genus Ribes; 

 it is known by the 

 name of the wild 

 gooseberry ; the 

 fruit is many seed- 

 ed, as may be seen 

 at b, which repre- 

 sents it as cut 



vertically; c.is the same cut transversely. 



CLASS II. ANGIOCARPS. 

 Fruits which are covered by seme foreign envelope. 



This class is divided into five genera, as follows : 

 1st. Strobilum or cone, a collection of fruits concealed by 

 scales, whose union forms a globular or conical body, as the 

 juniper, pine, &c. Here is a representation (Fig. 80) of the 



Fig. 80. 



fruit of the Pinus (pine) ; a is an entire strobilum ; b is the 

 same, cut vertically. 



2d. Calybion (from Kalubion, a little cabin) ; fruits of this 

 genus are composed of glandular pericarps, contained in a pe- 

 culiar kind of bract ; in the oak, it is partly concealed ; in the 

 beech it is wholly concealed, and also in the yew (Taxus) ; in 

 the latter are two bracts, one enclosing the other ; the exteri- 



Enumerate the orders in the class Gymnocarps, with the genera of each 

 Describe the class Angiocarps Strobilum Calybion. 



