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THE FRUIT. 



and of certain species of Hone}'suckle, formed of the ovaries 

 of two blossoms united into one fleshy fruit. The more usual 

 sorts are such as the pine-apple, mulberry, and the fig. These 

 are, in fact, dense forms of inflorescence, with the fruits or floral 

 envelopes matted together or coherent with each other ; and all 

 or some of the parts succulent. The grains of the mulberry 

 (Fig. 654-656) are not the ovaries of a single flower, like those 



of the blackberry, which it superficially resembles : they belong 

 to as many separate flowers ; and the pulp pertains to the calyx, 

 not to the pericarp, which is an akene. So that this, like most 

 multiple fruits, is anthocarpous as well as multiple. Similarly, 

 the mostly indefinite fructiferous masses of Strawberry Elite may 

 resemble strawberries ; but the pulpy part is the calyx of many 

 flowers, not the succulent receptacle of one. In the pine-apple, 

 the flowers are spicate or capitate on a simple axis, which grows 

 on beyond them into leafy stem ; this when rooted as a cutting 



3. Fruit compound (ovaria compound), SYNCARPI ; 4. Collective fruits, 

 Anihocarpi. 



Later, in his "Elements of Botany," Lindley reduced the classes to 

 two: 1. Simple Fruits, those proceeding from a single flower; 2. Multiple 

 fruits, those formed out of several flowers. 



FIG. 654. A mulberry, young. 655. One of the fleshy grains at flowering time, show- 

 ing it to be a pistillate blossom with fleshy calyx. 656. The same later, with the succu- 

 lent sepals in transverse section. 



FIG. 657. A young fig. 658. Longitudinal section of the same later, but in flowering 

 time. 659. A small slice, magnified, showing some of the flowers. 



