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Afclepias, have their feed-veffels of the Follicle 
kind, which, when the feeds are ripe, open 
lengthways on one fide. Drupe is a Peri- 
carp, or feed-veffel, that is generally fuccu- 
lent or pulpy, having no valve or external 
opening, and generally contains within it's 
fubftance a ftone or nut, within which lies a 
feed, commonly called a kernel: there are, 
however, exceptions to this definition; all the 
ftone-fruits are properly Drupes, Pome belongs 
to thofe fruits which contain within their flcfhy 
pulp the other kind of feed-veffel called Cap- 
fule ; the apple (pyrus) is an inftance of the 
Pome: the core of the apple is the Capfule ; 
the pippins contained within the Core are the 
feeds ; this kind of Pericarp, or feed-veffel, has 
no valve or outward opening. What is erro- 
neoufly called the bloffom of the apple was the 
calyx. Berry is a pulpy fubftance containing 
feeds, difpofed promifcuoufly through the pulp, 
without other covering; rafberries (riibus), 
ftrawberries (fragaria), goofeberries (ribes), 
anfwer well to this definition : in many ge- 
nera, or families, the berry and the drupe 
feem to have been imperfectly defined. And 
here it is neceffary to obferve, that there are 
fome defects in this moll ingenious fjftem of 
Linncusj 
