INDEHISCENT FRUITS. 



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the Egg-plant (Fig. 158), which 

 is from a free ovary. 



The Ked Pepper is a dry, inflated 

 berry ; the Nutmeg (Fig. 196) is a 



Fig. 211. — Dog-rose {Hoaa canina) : 

 a, Mp cut open ; 6, separate akaine. 



Fig. 212. — Pine-apple {Anantufsa 

 saliva). 



fleshy, dehiscent, one-seeded berry. The Pomegranate (Pig. 208) is a 

 dry berry, from an adherent ovary, with two sets of cells ; the lower 

 set has three cells with central plaoentation ; the upper set five to 

 seven cells with parietal plaoentation ; the cells many-seeded ; the 

 seeds baccate, or berry-like, with a succulent testa. 



353. The Hesperidium is the fleshy berry which characterizes the 

 Orange, Lemon, Citron, etc. (Pig. 127). It is so called because it is 

 believed that these fruits are the fabled golden apples of the Hes- 

 perides. 



354. The Pepo (6r. pepon, soft, mellow) is a berry with a succu- 

 lent interior and fleshy rind, as in the Melon and Cucumber, or with 

 a fibrous interior and woody rind, as in the Gourd. It characterizes 

 the Melon Family. The Calabash (Pig. 209). is a fleshy berry with a 

 hard, gourd-like rind ; it is the fruit of a tree about the size of the 

 Apple-tree; the hard shell of the fruit, a foot in diameter, is used 

 for various utensils, and often beautifully carved, by the natives of 

 tropical America. 



355. The Pome (L. pomum, apple, etc.) is a fleshy berry with from 

 2 to 5 horny cells, each cell with 2 or more seeds, as in the Quince 

 (Pig. 210), the Apple, etc. The edible part is the adherent calyx, 

 which becomes fleshy in ripening; the core is the true pericarp. 

 The Haw is a small pome with 1 to 5 bony, 1 -seeded cells, resem- 

 bling akaines, and called pyrenes (L. pyren, stone) ; it gives name to 

 the "Hawthorns. The Hip is a hollow pome with many separate 

 akaines on the torus which lines its fleshy calyx-tube; it belongs to 

 the Rose (Pig. 211). 



356. Apocarpous berries. — The Strawberry has a, fleshy torus, with 

 separate akaines flxed on its surface. The Easpberry consists of many 

 fleshy drupelets (little drupes) lightly cohering together, but separable 



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