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MIRBEL'S CLASSIFICATION OF FRUITS. 
contains all the fruits of this order not found in the othci 
The pericarp of the currant, whortleberry, orange, bar- 
berry, potato, grape, &c., are 
found here. Fig. 104, repre- 
sents a spherical berry, a, of 
the genus Ribes ; it is known 
by the name of wild goose 
berry ; the fruit is many 
seeded, as may be seen at 
5, which represents it as cut 
vertically ; c, is the same cut 
transversely. 
CLASS II. ANGIOCARPES. 
Fruits which are covered by a bract or foliaceous envelope. 
This class is divided into five genera, as follows : 
1st. Strohilum or cone, a collection of carcerular fruits concealed 
by scales, formed of bracts or peduncles, whose union produces a 
globular or conical body, as the juniper, pine, &c. Fig. 105, repre- 
sents the fruit of the pine, which is composed of woody, close, and 
indehiscent cupules. The glands are membranous, one-celled, an(/ 
one-seeded ; a, is an entire strohilum ; b, is the sam^ cut vertical ly 
the placenta, extending lengthwise through the fruit, is large. The 
pine-apple, Bromelia^ is of this genus of fruits. 
2d. Calybion* (from kaluhion^ a little cabin ;) fruits of this genus 
are composed of a cupule or cup of variable forms, and of carcercu- 
lars enveloped entirely, or in part, by the cupule. The carcerculara 
of calyblons are called glands. The gland of the oak is partly con- 
cealed in its cupule, that of the beech entirely concealed, and also 
of the yew, {Taxus ;) in the latter are two cupules, one enclosing 
the other ; the exterior one is succulent, and of an orange red j the 
interior, which is hard and woody, encloses the fruit. 
♦ This inc 'ides what some writers call the gland and the nut. 
Bacca— Enumerate tht orders in the class Gymnocarpes, with the genera of each- 
Describe the class Angiocarpes— Strobilum— Calybion. 
