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this strict envelope, almost closing over the single 

 seed, is the same thing to the nut that its green 

 shell is to a walnut! 



11. With still more capricious masquing, she 

 varies and hides the structure of her ' berries.' 



The strawberry is a hip turned inside-out, the 

 frutescent receptacle changed into a scarlet ball, 

 or cone, of crystalline and delicious coral, in the 

 outside of which the separate seeds, husk and all, 

 are imbedded. In the raspberry and blackberry, 

 the interior mound remains sapless ; and the 

 rubied translucency of dulcet substance is formed 

 round each separate seed, upon its husk ; not a 

 part of the husk, but now an entirely indepen- 

 dent and added portion of the plant's bodily 

 form. 



12. What is thus done for each seed, on the 

 <?#/side of the receptacle, in the raspberry, is 

 done for each seed, zV/side the calyx, in a pome- 

 granate; which is a hip in which the seeds have 

 become surrounded with a radiant juice, richer 

 than claret wine; while the seed itself, within the 

 generous jewel, is succulent also, and spoken 

 of by Tournefort as a " baie succulente." The 

 tube of the calyx, brown- russet like a large 

 hip, externally, is yet otherwise divided, and 

 separated wholly from the cinque-foiled, and 



