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THE SECOND BOOK OF BOTANY. 



CAPSULE. The pod of a compound pistil ; the dry, 

 dehiscent fruit of syncarpous pistils (Figs. 233 and 

 234). The pieces into which a capsule falls at dehis- 

 cence are called valves, the same as in one-carpelled 

 fruit. 



Fia. 233. 



FIG. 234. 



Those fruits that consist of achenia on a dry re- 

 ceptacle, as the sunflower, or on an enlarged, pulpy 

 receptacle, as the strawberry, or those which consist 

 of small drupes on a dry, spongy receptacle, crowded 

 almost into one mass, as the blackberry, are aggregate 

 fruits. They are sometimes called etcerio. 



Accessory, or anthocarpous fruits, are such as con- 

 sist of other parts of the flower only apparently joined 

 with the ovary. 



MULTIPLE, COLLECTIVE, or CONFLUENT Furors, are 

 formed by the union of many separate flowers into 

 one mass (Figs. 235 and 236). 



The sorosis is a kind of multiple fruit, to which 



