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4-t7 445 448 444 443 



Fruits. 441, Etoai-io of Rubus strigosns (Blflckborry). 443, Pepo ; section of cucumber. 449, 

 Berry, Grape- 443, Pome, Cratiegus (Haw), 444, Pyxis of Jeffersonia. 445, Legume of Pea. 

 446, Loment of Desmodium. 447, Silique of Sinapis. 448, Silicle of Gapsella. 



is a mass of confluent, closed pericarps on a lengthened torus (cucum- 

 ber tree). 



580. The fig (syconus) is an aggregate fruit, consisting of numer- 

 ous seed-like pericarps inclosed within a hollow, fleshy receptacle where 

 the flowers were attached. 



581. Other confluent fruits (sobosis) consist of the entire in- 

 florescence developed into a mass of united pericarps, as in the mul- 

 berry, osage-orange, pine-apple. 



451 450 452 449, bis. 



449, bis, Strobile of Pinua. 450, Tie Fig (syoonns). 461, Sorosis of Mulberry. 4M,HipofEosa, 

 achmia nearly inclosed in the leathery calyx tube. 



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