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keys. Our own small kinds can generally be 

 eaten whole, like the currant and the strawberry; 

 but these large southern fruits have often a bitter 

 or unpleasant or very thick rind, which the birds 

 or monkeys, for whose use they are intended, 

 know how to strip off them. Cases in point are 

 the orange, the lemon, the shaddock, the banana, 

 the pine-apple, the mango, the custard-apple, and 

 the breadfruit. The melon, cucumber, pumpkin, 



FIG. 46. FIG. 47. FIG. 48. 



Adhesive fruits. Fig. 46, of houndstongue. Fig. 47, of cleavers. 

 Fig. 48, of herb-bennet. 



gourd, vegetable marrow, and water-melon are 

 other southern forms cultivated in the north for 

 the sake of their fruits. In the pomegranate the 

 fruit itself is a dry capsule, but the seeds are each 

 enclosed in a separate juicy coat. The grape is 

 a fruit too well known to require detailed de- 

 scription. 



As flowers sometimes club together, so also do 

 fruits. In the mulberry the apparent berry is 

 really made up of the distinct carpels of several 

 separate flowers, which grow together as they 



