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appendages of the fruit therefore shall form the 

 subject of the two following subsections. 



SUBSECTION I. 



Appendages of the Ovary. In strict propriety 

 of language it has been already seen that the fruit 

 consists merely of the ripened ovary and contained 

 seed. But in a less rigid acceptation of the term, 

 if any part of the flower happens to become per- 

 sistent and so closely united to the ovary as to seem to 

 form a part of it, it also is included under the notion 

 of the fruit. It is plain however that this is merely 

 by way of accommodation to vulgar opinion, and 

 that the parts in question are but the appendages of 

 Being the the fruit. Thus the indurated scales of the catkin 

 wl"*i? formin g the strobile of the Fir, the prickly calyx 

 corolla. O f the Chesnut, the corolla of the genus Rume.r, 

 the corolline valves of the Grasses with their awns, 

 the nectary of the Cariccs, and the receptacle of the 

 Strawberry and Fig, though generally regarded as 

 forming part of the fruit, are but in fact appen- 

 dages of the ovary. 



Coating If the appendage investing the ovary covers it 

 v 5 entirely, or so as that the style only perforates the 

 covering, the fruit is said to be coated, as in that of 

 the Hollyhock, which is coated by the calyx ; or of 

 the Grasses, coated by the corolla ; or of the Carices, 

 coated by the nectary ; or of the Fig, coated by the 

 receptacle. If the appendage embracing the ovary 



