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The ordinary dry indehiscent fruit is termed an 

 achene or nut. In practically all cases it contains 

 one seed only, and in common 

 speech is usually called a seed; 

 such are the fruits of HELIANT- 

 HUS the Sunflower, Cosmos and 

 all others of the family COMPO- 

 SITE, and NARAVELIA, CLEMATIS, 

 RANUNCULUS and also the so 

 called seeds on the Strawberry 

 fruit. The grains of Paddy, 

 Sorghum, Ragi and other cereal 

 plants are also achenes. In 

 VENTILAGO the nut is winged 

 and is termed a samara (a word 



used for both a winged nut and 

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FRUIT OF AR.STOLOCH.A * *"**<* ^ of a sch.zocarp). 



FLESHY FRUITS 



4. By a fleshy fruit, we mean one of which the 

 outer part is soft and juicy, and can be eaten by men 

 or other animals. There are two main types of fleshy 

 fruit. The Mango and the Apricot are fleshy fruits in 

 which we can distinguish four parts, an outermost skin, 

 a juicy part, a hard stone, and inside the latter the 

 kernel. The kernel is the seed proper, everything out- 

 side it is developed from the ovary, for if we examine 

 the stone of a mango or of an apricot we shall find 

 no trace at all of the micropyle which every seed 

 must have. This kind of fruit is called a drupe. 



On the other hand, in the Grape (the raisin and 

 black currant are dried grapes), the Brinjal, Chilli, 



