ANGIOSPERMS 241 
tacle) like a cap (Fig. 233). A strawberry is a very much 
enlarged and fleshy receptacle, in the surface of which 
minute akenes are imbedded (Fig. 234). A blackberry is 
not only a cylindrical mass of small stone-fruits, but. also 
includes the fleshy receptacle. 
In such fruits as apples, pears, and quinces, the fleshy 
part is the modified cup-like base of the flower surrounding 
Fic. 236.—Pineapple in surface view and section. 
the ovary, which with its contained seeds is represented 
by the core (Fig. 235). An extreme case is the pineapple, 
in which a whole flower-cluster has become an enlarged 
fleshy mass, including axis and bracts (Fig. 236). 
