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3 Accessory Fruits 



Accessory fruits are those in which some conspicuous part of the fruit 

 is derived from some portion not organically connected with the ovary or 

 pistil. This part might be called a pseudocarp, and this condition may 

 occur either in simple, in aggregate, or in multiple fruits. The Winter- 

 green (Gaultheria procumbens) affords a good example (figun-s <>4 

 and 95), the fleshy part of the fruit being the enlarged calyx. Likewise 

 tin- torus, although not conspicuous, may be said to be an accessory part 

 of the fruit of the Blackberry, being the fleshy or pulpy center of the 

 fruit. In the Strawberry it is very conspicuous and comprises the sole 

 edible part of the fruit, the achenes or true fruits being dispersed over the 

 surface and comparatively insignificant. 



4 Multiple or Collective Fruits 



Multiple or collective fruits are those which result from the aggregation 

 of several flowers into one mass. The simplest of these is the fruit of the 

 Partridge Berry ( Mitchell a repens) and certain Honeysuckles (Loni- 

 cera) formed of the ovaries of two blossoms united into one fleshy fruit. 

 More typical examples of this are seen in the Pineapple fruit, the Mulberry 

 and others. 



