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floral leaves), the ovary and its contained seeds being repre- 

 sented by the "core." In other cases, the end of the stem 

 bearing the ovaries (receptacle) becomes enlarged and 

 pulpy, as in the strawberry (Fig. 191). This effect some- 

 times involves even 

 more than the 

 parts of a single 

 flower, a whole 

 flower-cluster, 

 with its axis and 

 bracts, becoming 

 an enlarged pulpy 

 mass, as in the 

 pineapple (Fig. 

 192). 



The term 

 "fruit," therefore, 



Fig. 187. A ripe dandelion head, showing the mass of 

 plumes, a few seed-like fruits (akenes) with their 

 plumes still attached to the receptacle, and two 

 frllen off.— After Kerner. 



Fig. 188. An akene of beg- 

 gar ticks, showing the two 

 barbed appendages which 

 lay hold of animals. — Af- 

 ter Beal. 



Fig. 189. To the left a section of a peach (fruit\ 

 showing pulp and stone formed from ovary wall, 

 and the contained seed (kernel) ; to the right 

 the fruit of almond, which ripens dry.— After 

 Gbat. 



