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907 



909 



910 



911 



913 



914 



915 



916 



Some cucumbers grow 

 globular, and are muri- 

 cated, that is, covered with 

 sharp points, 907. 



The quince is a many- 

 seeded pome, the seeds 

 being enclosed in a muci- 

 laginous covering, 908. 



Pears are bell-shaped, 

 containing five cells which 

 are two- seeded. Pears 

 and apples are of the 

 same genus, and are dis- 

 tinguished by the same 

 arrangement and number 

 of seeds and cells, 909. 



The peach is of the 

 almond group, bearing a 

 beautiful downy drupe ; 

 the peach and the nectarine 

 being the most exquisite! y 

 delicious of British fruits, 

 910. 



The smooth star apple 

 (c. glabruni) bears ellipti- 

 cal smooth berries, full of 

 milky juice; the berries 

 ten-celled, with solitary 

 shining seeds, 911. 



Figs are fleshy receptac'es, 

 many seeded, the seeds 

 being embedded in a soft 

 pulp, 912. In tropical 

 countries the fig tree 

 bears fruit twice a year. 



The mad apple (s. insd- 

 num) bears a lanre soli- 

 tary pendulous two- celled 

 many-seeded berry, 913. 



The black pepper plant 

 bears a number of small 

 one- seeded berries upon a 

 simple slender spadix, 

 914. Black pepper of 

 commerce is that ground 

 with the coat of the seed ; 

 white pepper is the seed 

 separated from the husk. 



The bladdery lamb's 

 lettuce bears a number of 

 three- celled capsules in a 

 globose head, 915. 



The medlar is a fruit 

 resembling the smaller 

 apples, and has a good 

 deal of flavour, but is un- 

 fit for use until it is very 

 ripe. This berry is called 

 turbinated, having the 

 shape of a top, 916. 



923 



918 



919 



920 



921 



925 



The seeds of sedges are 

 generally gathered in 

 terminal round heads, 

 surmounting axillary 

 stems, 917. 



The nerve leaved hakea 

 produces two-seededwoody 

 follicles, each seed having 

 a little wing at the end, 

 918. 



The long -leaved condic 

 bears small drupes upon 

 corymbose stems, 919. 



The flexuose winter 

 cherry, bears its fruit 

 enclosed in an inflated 

 calyx, each calyx two- 

 celled, 920. 



The three-lobed asmina 

 produces flattened cordate 

 berries, opposite, in threes, 

 with one terminal, 921. 



The ear-podded b. mus- 

 tard, bears a curious flat 

 seed-vessel, resembling, 

 when bursting, a double 

 shield, whence they are 

 called biscutate, 922. 



The narrow-leaved pep- 

 per-wort bears curious 

 small ovate pods, notched 

 at the end with one- 

 seeded cells, 923. 



The common soap-berry 

 bears fleshy capsules, 

 joined together at the 

 base. The fruit is covered 

 with a pulp, which is 

 sometimes used for wash- 

 ing : and the black stones 

 were formerly used for 

 buttons, 924. 



The filiform cassyihia 

 bears one-seeded drupes, 

 ranged laterally upon long 

 filamentous stems, 925. 



The Brazilian dock bears 

 its seed in flattened valves y 

 each containing a three- 

 cornered seed, 926. 



