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PEKICARP. 



442 



449 



441 



44C 



447 445 44S 444 443 



Fruits. 441, Etar.-io of Rubus strigostis (Blackberry). 442, Pepo ; section of cucumber. 449, 

 Berry, Grape. 443, Pome, Crataegus (Haw). 444, Pyxis of Jeffersonia. 445, Legume of Pea. 

 446, Loment of Dcsmodium. 447, Silique of Sinapis. 448, Silicic of Capsella. 



is a mass of confluent, closed pericarps on a lengthened torus (cucum- 

 ber tree). 



5,80. THE FIG (syconus) is an aggregate fruit, consisting of numer- 

 ous seed-like pericarps inclosed within a hollow, fleshy receptacle where 

 the flowers were attached. 



581. OTHER CONFLUENT FRUITS (SOROSIS) consist of the entire in- 

 florescence developed into a mass of united pericarps, as in the mul- 

 berry, osage-orange, pine-apple. 



451 450 452 449, bis. 



440, bis, Strobile of Pinus. 450, The Fig (syconus). 451, Sgrosis of Mulberry. 452, Hip of Rosa, 

 acaenia nearly inclosed in the leathery^alyx tube. 



