88 OBJECT LESSONS IN BOTANY. 



172. Tnjina is the name for such fruits as Walnut, Cocoa- 

 nut. Like the drupe, it has a stony seed shell, but its outer 

 coat is rather woody than pulpy. 



173. Such fruit as the Raspberry or Blackberry we call 

 etcBrio. It consists of many little fleshy drupes growing fast 

 together or to the torus. In the Blackberry they grow to 

 the torus (Fig. 268). 



174. The berry is a thin-skinned, pulpy fruit, holding its 

 several seeds loose in the pulp, as Currant, Grape (Fig. 261). 

 The Orange, &c., is much like a berry, but on account of its 

 thick rind has been called by another name (hesperidium). 



175. Pepo is such a fruit as Squash, many-seeded, with a 

 hard, crusty riud. 



176. Pome, the Apple, Pear, Haw, a fleshy fruit with sev- 

 eral distinct cells. Here the fleshy calyx grows fast to the 

 ovaries ; while in the Hip, or Rose-fruit, the fleshy calyx 

 merely incloses the ovaries, as seen in Fig. 203. 



LESSON XXIII. 



FRUITS, CONTINUED. 



177; THE dehiscent pericarp, that is, those which open to 

 discharge the seeds, are generally dry fruits, known as pods. 

 The various forms have the following names : PYXIS, FOLLI- 

 CLE, LEGUME, SILIQUE, CAPSULE. 



168-176. The student will now please define and name the fruit of Butter- 

 cnps, Corn, Ash, Maple, Oak, Hazel, Plum, Walnut, Raspberry, 

 Orange, Squash, Pear, Haw, and Rose. 



177. Please give the names of the dehiscent pericarps. 



