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in essence the sarcocarp. For this is the directly edible 

 part of the plant, that e. g. which does not need being 

 cooked. 



1339. The nutritious substance of the fruit can be 

 none other than a highly elevated and analysed kind of 

 mucus, such as starch and gum, sugar and acids. Flour 

 is that which resembles the root, sugar the stalk, acids 

 the foliage ; therefore flour is in the seed, sugar in the 

 pistil, and acid in the calyx. 



1340. There can be only three kinds of fruit, that con- 

 stantly accord with the preponderance of the three parts 

 of the flower, as seed-fruit, pistil- and corolla-fruit. 



1341. The fruit that has the preponderance of the 

 seed, or where the edible substance resides in the seed, 

 and the ovary itself has become seed-shaped, is the Nut. 

 The nut is the cariopsis that has become sarcocarp ; it is 

 therefore one-seeded farinaceous sarcocarp. 



1342. In the ovarian fruit the ovarium has become demi 

 nut-like, half corolla-like or fleshy, as in the Plum. It 

 is the carpel that has become sarcocarp acid sarcocarp. 



1343. The fruit, in which the whole ovarium together 

 with the calyx is edible, is the corolla-fruit, the Berry. 

 Only those perfectly soft fruits are true berries which are 

 inclosed by the calyx, as being forsooth a part of the 

 blossom. The berry is the siliqua or hollow capsule that 

 has become sarcocarp. Therefore it has numerous and 

 small seeds saccharine sarcocarp. 



1344. Finally, these fruits combine to form a common 

 fruit, which represents the proper synthesis of all parts 

 of the blossom, or in which seed, ovarium and flower, 

 along with the calyx, have become sarcocarp. This is the 

 Apple, a syncarpus. The apple is the calyx become 

 sarcocarp, and as it usually incloses several carpels, it is 

 therefore polycarpal and contains few seeds. It consists 

 of seed, ovarium and calyx, which have become flesh. 

 The apple, as being an unopen calyx-fruit, may probably 

 be regarded as the fruit of the trunk. It furnishes pro- 

 perly drink and food, is the fruit against thirst and 

 hunger the universal, alimentary sarcocarp. The apple 



