analogy shows to be bracteas; and I cannot but think Jussieu and Gærtner more correct in their ideas of this singular fruit, when they call the pulpy part in question a receptacle, though the term calyx seems less paradoxical, and is perhaps still more just[1]. We do not know enough of Taxus nucifera to draw any conclusions from thence. See Gærtner, t. 91. In the Strawberry, Engl. Bot. t. 1524, what is commonly called the berry is a pulpy receptacle, studded with naked seeds. In the Fig, Gærtner, t. 91, the whole fruit is a juicy calyx, or rather common receptacle, containing in its cavity innumerable florets, each of which has a proper calyx of its own, that becomes pulpy and invests the seed, as in its near relation the Mulberry. The Paper Mulberry of China is indeed an intermediate genus between the two, being as it were a Fig laid open, but without any pulp in the common receptacle.
7. Strobilus, a Cone, is a Catkin hardened
- ↑ Hernandia, Gærtn. t. 40, has a similar, though not succulent, calyx, and the green cup of the Hazlenut is equivalent to it.
