14 INTRODUCTORY. 
fruit, heat - the Strawberry, it is the large and pulpy receptacle 
which i —— 
49. In the ‘nace of maturing, the walls of the ovary assume 
riety of texture. If they become soft and pulpy a Berry is fmm or 
if the outer portion van vee suey en soft while the inner part 
comes hard and y, a stonefrui Drupe is produced ig: an 
When the walls ated ‘thick or hatin ee ve some form of a Pod, 
or if bony, a Nut. The internal structure of the fruit is often different 
from that of the ovary; a several-celled ovary frequently | peogen a 
— fruit, the other cells, and often all the ovules but o & ene 
oblitera t sometimes happens that more cells are present in the 
fi Es were contained in the ovary; this results from the emiin 
of false partitions. 
50. A pod form 
or ventral suture, is a Pollidle (ig. iyi if it oe at both sutures and 
splits into im valves or pieces, It i i Pea 
and are familiar examples. ‘A hg format by a oe ngage hid 
is termed a Sapa aoe this 0 it 
otherwise indehiscent. 
through the parti nai it is septscidal-< or ees the back of each 
carpel ; the ees aes is called loculicidal. ‘That form of pod which is 
or aaiek (Fig. dus 
Some e capsules a transverse line, the top coming off as a lid ; 
rig. a is salled ee yxis and this kind of dehiscence, cireumszssile. 
ig. 4 
51. A berry is a fruit, which like the grape, is pulpy sbronaneet 5 ae § 
rind becomes hardened w while the interior remains soft, a pod 
aap a 
52. The seed has anions becn deseribed as containing an embryo 
vith or without albumen; it has two coats, ee 
: he ‘and delicate and mot alwa: ays to be made out,— the outer one, the 
‘Testa, is much thicker and often even hard and bony, and is variously 
