CHAP. II. 
FRUIT. 
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The fruit is the ovary or pistil arrived at maturity ; but, 
although this is the sense in which the term is strictly applied, 
yet in practice it is extended to whatever is combined with 
the ovary when ripe. Thus the pine-apple fruit consists of 
a mass of bracts, calyxes, corollas, and ovaries ; that of the 
nut, the acorn, and many others, of the superior dry calyx 
and ovary ; that of the apple of a succulent superior calyx, 
corolla, and ovary ; and that of the strawberry-blite of a 
succulent inferior calyx and dry ovary. 
The fruit being the matured ovary, it should exhibit 
upon some part of its surface the traces of a style or stigma ; 
and this mark will, in many cases, enable the student to dis- 
tinguish minute fruits from seeds. Many fruits were formerly 
