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from the dry, conical torus. The Blackberry has its drupelets and 

 torus united, and both edible. 



357. Anthocarpous fruits. — A part of the flower not 



adherent to the ovary 

 sometimes assists in 

 forming the fruit. In 

 the Wintergreen 

 ( Gauliheria) the calyx 

 becomes accrescent 

 and berry-like. The 

 same thing occurs in 

 the Oleasters (Elseag- 

 nacese), which furnish 

 the Buffalo - berry, 

 Silverberry, and Sea- 

 Buckthorn. Such 

 single fruits are 

 termed anthocarpous, 

 or flower-fruited. 

 We are thus led to 

 358. Multiple fruits, 

 which are the product of an inflorescence. They include 

 ^, ^^^ the galbule (Fig. 45) and 



pine-cone (Fig. 46) ; the 

 Pine -apple (Fig. 212), 

 which in its wild state 

 runs up to a spike of 

 flowers, producing seeds; 

 the Fig (Fig. 140), which 

 is called Syconusj the 

 Bois d'Arc, and the Bread- 

 fruit (Fig. 213). 



The Breadfruit often weighs 

 50 pounds, and is a foot in 

 diameter. It is prepared in 

 more than a dozen ways for 

 food, and is the chief suste- 

 nanceof the natives of the South 

 Sea Islands and Southern Asia, 



where it is indigenous. The fruit is a head of female (fertile) flowers. 



The Mulberry is the same, except that here the flowers are in a raceme. 



It is called Sorosis in old botanies, from the Gr. soros, a heap ; but this 



Fig. 213.' — Breadfruit (Artocarpua incisa) ; with 2 

 heads of ? fla. and 1 catkin of rf fls. 







Fig. 214.— Hd 

 mun). 



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