FRUITS. 



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pericarp or covering : — Maize, oat, kangaroo grass, wheat, 

 barley. (Allied to the achene.) 



Cone. — Having woody scales or bracts, covering seed or 

 seeds : — Murray pine, cypress, sheoak, stone pine, and 

 nearly the whole of the pine tribe (Coniferae), as well as the 

 Cycadese, Zamia, etc. 



Strobilus. — A sort of cone with membranous scales and 

 seeds in carpels (the small parts of which form compound 

 fruits) : — Brewer's hop. 



Hesperidium. — A modification of the berry. ' An aromatic 

 glandular epicarp, a dry and spongy mesocarp, an endo- 

 carp covered with watery cells, which spring from the walls 

 of the cavities and extend to the seeds : — Orange, lemon, 

 citron, shaddock.' — Le Maout and Decaisne. 



There.are less important sub-divisions of some of the above. 



Contrast the fruit of the native fuchsia or correa with 

 that of the true fuchsia : — - 



Fig. F.— FRUIT of NATIVE FUCHSIA (CORREA SPECIOSA). 

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A, longitudinal section of fruit magnified, showing four seeds; I, 

 attached by the funiculus ; 2, to the placenta ; 3, persistent calyx, ca ; 

 B, cross section of fruit ; C, follicle or fruitlet or carpel, containing two 

 seeds ; T), seed magnified. 



Fruit composed of four carpels (see cross section B). 



