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now PLANTS AKK PKorAGATED. 



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248. Multiple Fruits aro masses of simple or accessory fruits helon^inf,' to difTerent 

 flowers, uU compacted to<,'etiier. Mtifhirrirs (Vi'^. 223) are of this sort. Tliey 

 look like l)la('kberries, but each <,M'a'iu helonys to a separate 

 flower; ami the eatable l>ulp is uot even the seed-vessel of that, 

 l)ut is a loose calyx iri'owii l>ul[»y, just like tiiat of ( "hecker- 

 berry, and surrouiidinj,' an akent;, wliich is Lrcncrally taken for a 

 seed. The [)ine-ai)ple is much lil<t' a mulberry on a lar^'e scale, 

 j^ A tii; is a multiple fruit, being a hollow flower-stalk <,M'own pulpy, 

 the inside lined l)y a ijreat inimber of minute flowers. 



249. S(}, luider the name of fiuit very difVcrcnt things aro 

 eaten. In figs it is a hollow flower-stalk ; in pine-apples and 

 nndberries, clusters of flower-leaves, as 



well as the stalk they cover; in straw- 

 berries, the receptacle of a flower ; in blackberries, tlu^ 

 same, though snuiller, and a cluster of little stone-fruits 

 that cover it ; in raspberries, the little stone-fruits in a 

 cluster, without the receptacle. In checkerberries, quinces, 

 and (as to all l)ut the core) a[)ples and pears, we eat a 

 fleshy erdarged calyx ; in peaches and other stone-fruits, 

 the outer part of a seed-vessel; in grapes, gooseberries, 



blueberries, and cranberries, tlvo whole 



seed-vessel, grown rich and pulpy. 



250. The Cone of Phie (Fig. 224) and the 

 like is a sort of multiply fruit. Each scale 

 is a whole pistillate flower, consisti ^ of 

 an open pistil leaf, ri])ened, and bearing 



on its upper face one or two naked seeds — as ex})lained at the end of the last 

 section (218, 219). Fig. 225 shows the upper side of one of the thick scales taken 

 off, bearing one seed; tlie other, removed, is shown, with its wing, in Fig. 226. 



ritiii-iiiiic Ciuit.'. 



}^ 2. Si'ccJs. 



252. A Seed is an ovule fertilised and matured, and with a germ or embryo 

 formed in it. 



253. In the account of the growth of plants from the seed, at the Ijeginning of 

 the book (Chapter I. Section i), seeds have already been considered sufliciently 



