Chap. 29.] EELATIYE NATURES OE BEREY EEIJITS. 321 
gained its name of "unedo,"^ people being generally con- 
tent with eating but one. The Greeks, however, have found 
for it two names — '^comaron" and memecylon,'' from which 
it would appear^^ that there are two varieties. It has also 
with us another name besides that of unedo," being known 
also as the arbutus." Juba states that in Arabia this tree 
attains the height of fifty cubits. 
CHAP. 29. — THE RELATIVE NATURES OF BERRY FRUITS. 
There is a great difference also among the various acinus 
fruits. Eirst of all, among the grapes, we find considerable 
difference in respect to their firmness, the thinness or thick- 
ness of the skin, and the stone inside the fruit, which in some 
varieties is remarkably small, and in others even double in 
number : these last producing but very little juice. Very dif- 
ferent, again, are the berries of the ivy^^ and the elder as 
also those in the pomegranate,®^ these being the only ones that 
are of an angular shape. These last, also, have not a mem- 
brane for each individual grain, but one to cover them all in 
common, and of a pale colour. All these fruits consist, too, 
of juice and flesh, and those more particularly which have but 
small seeds inside. 
There are great varieties, too, among the berry"^^ fruits; 
the berry of the olive being quite different from that of the 
laurel, the berry of the lotus from that of the cornel, and 
that of the myrtle from the berry of the lentisk. The berry, 
however, of the aquifolium'^ and the thorn is quite destitute 
of juice. 
The cherry ''^ occupies a middle place between the berry and 
the acinus fruit : it is white at first, which is the case also 
' 6* He suggests that it is so called from " unum edo,'* " I eat but one 
a rather fanciful etymology, it would seem. 
65 This supposition is not warranted, from merely the fact of there being 
two names. ^7 gee B. xvi. c. 52. 
69 See B. xxiv. c. 35. 69 See B. xiii. c. 34. 
" Baccis." Berries, properly so called. 
The Celtis Australis of Linnaeus. 
'2 Supposed by some to be the holly. See B. xxv. c. 72. 
'^^ He alludes to a variety of the Crataegus. 
The Cerasus vulgaris of modern botanists. It is said to have obtained 
its name from Cerasus, in Asia Minor, where Lucullus found it. 
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