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Berry [baccate] (figure 93), a simple fruit in which the pericarp is fleshy 

 throughout and without a hardened inner coat. The fruit of the Grape, 

 Currant, Gooseberry, Cranberry, Banana and Tomato furnish good 

 examples. 



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95 



2 Aggregate Fruits 

 Aggregate fruits are those in which a cluster of carpels, all belonging to 

 one flower, are crowded on the receptacle into one mass, as in the Black- 

 berry (figure 89) taken as a whole. They may be aggregates of any kind 

 of simple fruits. But when dry and not coherent, the mass would simply 

 be described as a head or spike of carpels (or achenes, as in Buttercup, 

 Anemone etc.). 



