THE FRUIT AND SEED. 



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the pineapple (Fig. 235) belongs. The fig is a mul- 

 tiple fruit of the kind known as syconus, while 

 strobilus is the name given to the multiple fruit of 

 trees of the pine family. 



FIG. 235. 



Fia. 236. 



EXEKOISE XXXIX. 

 The Seed. Its Form and Surface. 



The forms of seeds vary very much. 

 They may be globular, ovoid, reniform, 

 oblong, cylindrical, topshaped, angular, 

 etc. Some seeds are small and fine, 

 like sawdust ; others are flattened and 

 bordered, as seen in Fig. 237. 



FIG. 237. 



