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But in the ' hip ' of the rose, the incorporation with the 

 husk of the seed does not take place. The torus, or, as in 

 this flower from its peculiar form it is called, the tube of the 

 calyx, alone forms the frutescent part of the hip ; and the 

 complete seeds, husk and all, (the firm triangular husk enclos- 

 ing an almond-shaped kernel,) are grouped closely in its in- 

 terior cavity, while the calyx remains on the top in a large 

 and scarcely withering star. In. the nut, the calyx remains 

 green and beautiful, forming what we call the husk of a fil- 

 bert ; and again we find Nature amusing herself by trying to 

 make us think that this strict envelope, almost closing over 

 the single seed, is the same thing to the nut that its green 

 shell is to a walnut ! 



11. With still more capricious masquing, she varies and 

 hides the structure of her 'berries.' 



The strawberry is a hip turned inside-out, the frutescent 

 receptacle changed into a scarlet ball, or cone, of crystalline 

 and delicious coral, in the outside of which the separate seeds, 

 husk and all, are imbedded. In the raspberry and blackberry, 

 the interior mound remains sapless ; and the rubied translu- 

 cency of dulcet substance is formed round each separate seed, 

 upon its husk ; not a part of the husk, but now an entirely in- 

 dependent and added portion of the plant's bodily form. 



12. What is thus done for each seed, on the outside of the 

 receptacle, in the raspberry, is done for each seed, i??side the- 

 calyx, in a pomegranate ; which is a hip in which the seeds 

 have become surrounded with a radiant juice, richer than 

 claret wine ; while the seed itself, within the generous jewel, 

 is succulent also, and spoken of by Tournefort as a " baie suo- 

 culente." The tube of the calyx, brown-russet like a large hip, 

 externally, is yet otherwise divided, and separated wholly from 

 the cinque-foiled, and cinque-celled rose, both in number of 

 petal and division of treasuries ; the calyx has eight points, and 

 nine cells. 



13. Lastly, in the orange, the fount of fragrant juice is in- 

 terposed between the seed and the husk. It is wholly inde- 

 pendent of both ; the Aurantine rind, with its white lining and 

 divided compartments, is the true husk ; the orange pips are 



