FRUIT. 



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CHAPTER XXIV. 



FRUIT. 



WE will begin by 

 looking again at the 

 fruit of the buttercup 

 (Fig. 23, p. 27) or the 

 primrose. Of course 

 you can tell me what 

 the fruit is? Quite right, 

 it is the ripening pistil ; 

 the ovary and seeds of 

 the primrose, or the 

 ovaries and seed of 

 the buttercup, as the 

 case may be. It is a 

 true fruit. 



(i) But sometimes 

 fruits are called pseudo- 

 Fig. 114. Oak and acorns. carps* or Spurious 



fruits. Such are the apple, or the strawberry, or the 

 hips of a rose. For instance, if you take an apple 

 and cut it in half, what do you see ? After all the 



* From the Greek ( 'pseudos," false (spurious), and " karpos" fruit. 



