GOOSEBERRY 



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angular, hard-shelled seeds, each with several resin-blisters 

 on it. The whole presents striking, superficial resem- 

 blances to an inferior false-drupaceous fruit, until attention 

 is paid to the details. Each galbulus is sub-sessile on 

 branches bearing whorls of three subulate evergreen 

 leaves. 



(b) Fruit a berry or of berry-like nature (baccate), with 

 small seeds immersed in relatively large pulpy 

 flesh, and not conspicuous as " stones." 



[The essential difference from the drupe is that the 

 pericarp is fleshy throughout, or at most parchment-like 



Fig. 129. Gooseberry, Eibes Grossularia. 1, flowering shoot ; 2, 

 flower in vertical section, enlarged; 3, transverse section of fruit; 

 4, vertical section of seed (Wo). 



inside, any hard shell to the seed being due to the seed- 

 coats; but in practice any such fruit is called a berry 

 where relatively small seeds are immersed in a copious 

 pulp.] 



(i) Berry inferior, bearing the scars of sepals, [J or M 

 stamens, &c. at its apex. 



seep. 147.] 



