18 THE STIIOBILUS. 



dered this fruit as a real bacca or drupa, with the 

 idea or definition of either of which it cannot by 

 any means be made to accord,, being open at the 

 top, and having no connection with the stigma, 

 which crowns the seed itself. The same writer mis- 

 takes for a calyx the scales, which analogy shows 

 to be bracteas ; and I cannot but think Jussieu and 

 Gaertner more correct in their ideas of this singular 

 fruit, when they call the pulpy part in question a 

 receptacle, though the term calyx seems less para- 

 doxical, and is perhaps still more just*. We do not 

 know enough of Taxus nucifera to draw any con- 

 clusions from thence. See Gartner, t. 91. In the 

 Strawberry, EngL Bot. t. 1524, what is commonly 

 called the berry is a pulpy receptacle, studded with 

 naked seeds. In the Fig, Gartner, t.9l, the whole 

 fruit is a juicy calyx, or rather common receptacle, 

 containing in its cavity innumerable florets, each of 

 which has a proper calyx of its own, that becomes 

 pulpy and invests the seed, as in its near relation 

 the Mulberry. The Paper Mulberry of China is 

 indeed an intermediate genus between the two, being 

 as it were a Fig laid open, but without any pulp in 

 the common receptacle. 



7. StrobiluSyf. 1 88, a Cone, is a Catkin hardened and 

 enlarged into a Seed-vessel, as in Pinus, the Fir. 



* Hcrnandia, Ga-rtn. t. 40, has a similar, though not succulent, calyx, 

 and the green cup of the Hazel-nut is equivalent to it. 



