Fig. 810.—Nut (hazel-nut).
Fig. 811.—Strawberry.
Fruits consisting of the floral envelopes and the ovaries of several flowers united into one, are termed multiple or anthocarpous; the sorosis (cluster-fruit: example—the pine-apple, the breadfruit, the mulberry), the sycosis (fig-fruit), and the strobilus (fir-cone), form varieties of the anthocarpous or multiple fruit.
Non-Flowering Plants.
The cryptogamia or acrogens is the botanical term for these plants, of which we must be very brief in our description,—not that the subject is not worthy of a much larger space than we can devote to it, but our pages are not elastic.
Fig. 812.—Liverwort.
