Text-book of structural and physiological botany . d, when mature, encloses the seeds which have developedfrom the ovules. Hence the product of an inflorescence,such as a bunch of grapes, is not properly a fruit, but rathera group of fruits, each separate berry or grape being adistinct fruit. Collections of fruits of this kind, resultingfrom the maturity of inflorescences, aretermed syncarps or multiple fruits, and maybeclassified under racemes, spikes, umbels, & is also not uncommon for other parts ofthe flower besides the ovary to unite with itin the formation of the so-called ^ fruit ;
Text-book of structural and physiological botany . d, when mature, encloses the seeds which have developedfrom the ovules. Hence the product of an inflorescence,such as a bunch of grapes, is not properly a fruit, but rathera group of fruits, each separate berry or grape being adistinct fruit. Collections of fruits of this kind, resultingfrom the maturity of inflorescences, aretermed syncarps or multiple fruits, and maybeclassified under racemes, spikes, umbels, & is also not uncommon for other parts ofthe flower besides the ovary to unite with itin the formation of the so-called ^ fruit ; andsuch similitudes of true fruits are calledcSp ^of the straw- pseudocarps. The rose-hip, for example, is^^^- a pseudocarp, because it results partly from the development of the calyx-tube, each little stone whichis enclosed in it being a mature ovary. The strawberry(Fig. 301) is also of this character, the succulent sapid massbeing a portion of the receptacle which has become fleshy,while the small so-called ^seeds which are imbedded in its. TJie External Form of Plants, 147 surface are the actual fruits. The apple again is a pseudo-carp [here termed z,pome\^ the flesh being mainly developedout of the calyx-tube, which even when in flower is adherentto the ovary. In the spinach the perianth, in the oat theglumes, take part in the formation of the pseudo-carp. Pseudocarps are sometimes formednot of simple, but of multiple fruits. Thus themulberry (Fig. 302) is a pseudo-syncarp,, result-ing from the coalescence of the bracts with theperianth ; and the same is the case also withthe pineapple, the fig (Fig. 215, p. 118), thebreadfruit, &c.
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