116 



PERICARP. 



442 



449 



441 



446 



447 



445 



448 444 443 



Fruits. 441, Etaerio of Eubus strigosus (Blackberry). 442, Pepo ; section of cucumber. 449, 

 Berry, Grape. 443, Pome, Cratsegus (Haw).' 444, Pyxis of Jeffersonia. 445, Legume of Pea. 

 446, Loment of Desmodium. 447, Silique of Sinapis. 448, Silicle o| Capsella. 



is a mass of confluent, closed pericarps on a lengthened torus (cucum- 

 ber tree). 



580. THE FIG (syconus) is an aggregate fruit, consisting of numer- 

 ous seed-like pericarps inclosed within a hollow, fleshy receptacle where 

 the flowers were attached. 



581. OTHER CONFLUENT FRUITS (SOROSIS) consist of the entire in- 

 florescence developed into a mass of united pericarps, as in the mul- 

 berry, osage-orange, pine-apple. 



451 



450 



462 449, bis. 



449, bis, Strobile of Pinus. 450, Tlie Fig (syconus). 451, Sorosis of Mulberry. 452, Hip of Eosa, 

 achmia nearly inclosed in the leathery calyx tube. 



