TERMINOLOGY. Tt] 
Fagus sylvatica bears such. The proper fruit 
of this tree are two three-cornered nuts that 
stand close together, and are encompassed 
by a coricaceous prickly calyx, which has | 
the appearance of an unilocular, four-valved 
ycapsule. The dock, Rumex, bears but a 
single seed, which the abiding calyx sur- 
rounds like a capsule. The Carex ‘bears 
one seed, which is inclosed by the nectari- 
um, and thus acquires a capsule-like form. 
® The false nut, (nus spuria). The Trapa 
natans, has a single seed which is attached 
to the calyx, the foliola of which change 
into a hard nut-shell with four spines. ‘The 
Coix, lachryma fobi, bas a single seed, in- 
closed however by the calyx and corolla, and 
becomes hard and shining tike a stone. The 
Mirabilis ya/apa, retains the under part of 
the tube of the corolla, which grows with 
the seed, and forms a nut. 
é. Uhe false drupa, (drupa spuria). ‘The yew, 
Taxus baccata, bears a nut that ts half sunk 
in the fleshy receptacle, and thus appears 
like a drupa. ‘his is the case likewise with 
the Anacardium and Semicarpus, (§ 117.) 
al. The false berry, (acca spuria). Vhe juni- 
per, Juniperus communis has a catkin, (§ 64), 
and-must regularly bear a strobilus; but the 
scales grow together, become fleshy, and as- 
sume the appearance of a berry. ‘The straw- 
berry, Fragaria vesca, bears detached seeds 
upon 
