. British plants : their biology and ecology. Plants; Plant ecology. Fig. 99—Fruit of Goose- berry. Fig. 100.—" Psettdocarp " of Strawberry. a, achenes; b, succulent receptacle; c, persistent calyx. Fig. 101.—Mul- tiple Fruit of Mulberry. encloses one or two hard nuts. In the rose a large number of achenes are enclosed in a cup-shaped receptacle, which forms the succulent portion of the fruit. This is biologically a berry, just as the pome is biologically a drupe. In the strawberry (Fig. 100), another rosaceous plant, the receptacle, instead of enclosing the achenes, as in the rose,
. British plants : their biology and ecology. Plants; Plant ecology. Fig. 99—Fruit of Goose- berry. Fig. 100.—" Psettdocarp " of Strawberry. a, achenes; b, succulent receptacle; c, persistent calyx. Fig. 101.—Mul- tiple Fruit of Mulberry. encloses one or two hard nuts. In the rose a large number of achenes are enclosed in a cup-shaped receptacle, which forms the succulent portion of the fruit. This is biologically a berry, just as the pome is biologically a drupe. In the strawberry (Fig. 100), another rosaceous plant, the receptacle, instead of enclosing the achenes, as in the rose, swells out into a succulent mass, carrying the tiny achenes on its surface. In other cases the fruit is not the result of the matura- tion of a single flower, but of a whole inflorescence. In the mulberry (Fig. 101) the fruit consists of a number of little drupe-like bodies, each of which is the product of a single flower ; the fleshy portion is formed from four fused perianth-leaves. In the fig (Fig. 102) the axis of the inflorescence forms a hollow, pear-shaped fruit, which 13. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bevis, James Frederick; Jeffery, Henry John. London : A. Rivers
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