349. In respect to texture or consistence, fruits may be distinguished into three kinds, viz.-- _Fleshy Fruits_, those which are more or less soft and juicy throughout; _Stone Fruits_, or _Drupaceous_, the outer part fleshy like a berry, the inner hard or stony, like a nut; and _Dry Fruits_, those which have no flesh or pulp. 350. In reference to the way of disseminating the contained seed, fruits are said to be _Indehiscent_ when they do not open at maturity. Fleshy fruits and stone fruits are of course indehiscent. The seed becomes free only through decay or by being fed upon by animals. Those which escape digestion are thus disseminated by the latter. Of dry fruits many are indehiscent; and these are variously arranged to be transported by animals. Some burst irregularly; many are _Dehiscent_, that is, they split open regularly along certain lines, and discharge the seeds. A dehiscent fruit almost always contains many or several seeds, or at least more than one seed. [Illustration: Fig. 371. Leafy shoot and berry (cut across) of the larger Cranberry, Vaccinium macrocarpon.] [Illustration: Fig. 372, 373. Pepo of Gourd, in section. 373. One carpel of same in diagram.] [Illustration: Fig. 374. Longitudinal and transverse sections of a pear (pome).] 351. The principal kinds of fruit which have received substantive names and are of common use in descriptive botany are the following. Of fleshy fruits the leading kind is 352. =The Berry=, such as the gooseberry and currant, the blueberry and cranberry (Fig. 371), the tomato, and the grape. Here the whole flesh is soft throughout. The orange is a berry with a leathery rind. 353. =The Pepo=, or _Gourd-fruit_, is a hard-rinded berry, belonging to the Gourd family, such as the pumpkin, squash, cucumber, and melon, Fig. 372, 373. 354. =The Pome= is a name applied to the apple, pear (Fig. 374), and quince; fleshy fruits, like a berry, but the principal thickness is calyx, only the papery pods arranged like a star in the core really belonging to the carpels. The fruit of the Hawthorn is a drupaceous pome, something between pome and drupe. 355. Of fruits which are externally fleshy and internally hard the leading kind is 356. =The Drupe=, or _Stone-fruit_; of which the cherry, plum, and peach (Fig. 375) are familiar examples. In this the outer part of the thickness of the pericarp becomes fleshy, or softens like a berry, while the inner hardens, like a nut. From the way in which the pistil is constructed, it is evident that the fleshy part here answers to the lower, and the stone to the upper face of the component leaf. The layers or concentric portions of a drupe, or of any pericarp which is thus separable, are named, when thus distinguishable into three portions,-- _Epicarp_, the external layer, often the mere skin of the fruit, _Mesocarp_, the middle layer, which is commonly the fleshy part, and