Plants and their ways in South Africa . unculaccce. Sometimes the re-ceptacle is free from the carpels, or it becomes joined to them,as in the apple (epigynous), so that hypogyny, perigyny, andepigyny occur. Classification of Plants 309 The plants of this order are usually trees or shrubs with simple orcompound stipulate leaves. To this important order belong many of ourfruits, as Apples, Pears, Peaches, Strawberries, Blackberries, as well as theRoses. The flowers are open, and expose their honey to bees and flies. The order has a variety of fruits. The fruit is rarely a capsule. Thesingle car

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Plants and their ways in South Africa . unculaccce. Sometimes the re-ceptacle is free from the carpels, or it becomes joined to them, as in the apple (epigynous), so that hypogyny, perigyny, andepigyny occur. Classification of Plants 309 The plants of this order are usually trees or shrubs with simple orcompound stipulate leaves. To this important order belong many of ourfruits, as Apples, Pears, Peaches, Strawberries, Blackberries, as well as theRoses. The flowers are open, and expose their honey to bees and flies. The order has a variety of fruits. The fruit is rarely a capsule. Thesingle carpel may form a drupe or stone fruit, as in Apricot, Blackberryhas a cluster of drupels. Strawberries have clusters of achenes on anenlarged receptacle. The hollow receptacle of the Apple forms most ofthe fruit. The garden fruits belonging to this order and Roses have been intro-duced into South Africa. Rubus (the Bramble) is a native of the Colony and ofNatal. The fruit is a cluster of little drupes. Trailing shrubsarmed with prickles..