126 THE FRUIT. [lesson 20. 



283). OftPn it aclhores both to the calyx and to the ovary, as in 

 Kew Jersey Tea, the Ap])le, Sec, consolidating the whole together. 

 In such cases it is sometimes carried up and expanded on the top of 

 the ovary, as in the Parsley and 

 the Gins(;ng families, when it is 

 said to be epic/pious (273). 



332. In Ne'himbium, — a large 

 Water-Lily, abounding in the wa- 

 ters of our Western States, — the 

 singular and greatly enlarged receptacle is shaped like a top, and 

 bears the small pistils immersed in separate cavities of its flat upper 

 surface (Fig. 284). 



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LESSON XX. 



THE FRUIT. 



333- The ripened ovary, with its contents, becomes the Fniit. 

 When the tube of the calyx adheres to the ovary, it also becomes 

 a part of the fruit: sometimes it even forms the principal bulk of it, 

 as in the apple and pear. 



334. Some fruits, as they are commonly called, are not fruits at 

 all in the strict botanical sense. A strawberry, for example (as 

 we have just seen, 330, Fig. 282), although one of the choicest /n«Vs 

 in the common acceptation, is only an enlarged and pulpy receptacle, 

 bearing the real fruits (that is, the ripened pistils) scattered over its 



FIG. 282. Flowerof a Burktl)orn,\villi a larpe perigynousdisk. 283. The same, divided. 

 FIG. 284. Receptacle of Neliimbiurn, in fruit. 



