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the Strawberry, are, on the contrary, little drupes. The seat of 
the fleshy and eatable part here occupies an entirely different 
position. 
In the Fig (Fig. 249) the eatable part is formed, as in the Straw- 
berry, by a thick, fleshy, and succulent receptacle, of gourd-like 
shape. The real fruits, which the reader will have no doubt taken 
for the mere seeds, are achewnia, and are inserted in the inside 
surface of the receptacle. But there is this difference between the 
Fig. 249.—Section of Fig. Fig. 250.—Pine-Cone. 
Fig and the Strawberry, that all the fruits of the Strawberry 
appertain to one flower, while the fruits of the same Fig belong to 
different flowers. 
The Mulberry (Fig. 248) is not a fleshy fruit, properly so called ; 
it is an achenium, enclosed in a persistent calix, which has 
become fleshy. | 
The name of cone has been given to the fruit peculiar to 
a natural group of plants, the Pines, for this reason designated 
Conifere. The cone is a dry fruit, composed of a great number 
of achenia, or samare, hidden in the axils of hard and highly- 
developed bracts. Fig. 250 represents the Pine-cone. 
