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PERICARP. 



447 445 44S 444 443 



Fruits. 441, Etterio of Rubus strigosus (Blackberry). 443, Pepo ; section of encumber. 449, 

 Berry, Grape. 443, Pome, Cratsegus (Haw). 444, Pyxis of .Teffersonia. 445, Legume of Pea. 

 446, Loment of Desmodium. 447, Silique of Sinapis. 44S, Silicle of Capsella. 



is a mass of confluent, closed pericarps on a lengthened torus (cucum- 

 ber tree). 



580. THE FIG (syconus) is an aggregate fruit, consisting of numer- 

 ous seed-like pericarps inclosed within a hollow, fleshy receptacle where 

 the flowers were attached. 



581. OTHER CONFLUENT FRUITS (SOROSIS) consist of the entire in- 

 florescence developed into a mass of united pericarps, as in the mul- 

 berry, osage-orange, pine-apple. 



451 450 452 449, bis. 



44, bis, Strobile of Pinus. 450, The Fig (syconus). 451, Sorosis of Mulberry. 452, Hip of Kosa, 

 achenla nearly inclosed in the leathery calyx tube. 



