Trees : a handbook of forest-botany for the woodlands and the laboratory.
- Harry Marshall Ward
- Date:
- 1904-09
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Trees : a handbook of forest-botany for the woodlands and the laboratory. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Gerstein Science Information Centre at the University of Toronto, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Gerstein Science Information Centre, University of Toronto.
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![angular, hard-shelled seeds, each with several resin-blisters on it. The whole presents striking, superficial resem- blances to an inferior false-drupaceous fruit, until attention is paid to the details. Each galbulus is sub-sessile on branches bearing whorls of three subulate evergreen leaves. (b) Fruit a berry or of berry-like nature (baccate), with small seeds immersed in relatively large pulpy flesh, and not conspicuous as stones. [The essential difference from the drupe is that the pericarp is fleshy throughout, or at most parchment-like Fig. 129. Gooseberry, Ribes Grossularia. 1, flowering shoot; 2, flower in vertical section, enlarged; 3, transverse section of fruit; 4, vertical section of seed (Wo). inside, any hard shell to the seed being due to the seed- coats; but in practice any such fruit is called a berry where relatively small seeds are immersed in a copious pulp.] (i) Berry inferior, bearing the scars of sepals, lFor () stamens, &c. at its apex. seep'](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20996068_0149.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
