fig but distinct and different in the various species of the genus Ficus. It would seem probable that most, if not all, of the six hundred or more species of wild figs throughout the world are as dependent for their continued existence on their respective fig wasp guests as is the Caprifig.
Exhibits in the Field Museum pertaining to the Mulberry Family and the Fig are to be found in the Department of Botany, Halls 28 and 29, particularly, a reproduction of a fruiting branch of the Cultivated Fig, an enlarged section of a young flower receptacle, an enlarged section of a Caprifig with the male and female Fig Wasps, wood and rubber of Ficus, etc.
In the Department of Geology, Hall 18, are to be seen fossil Figs, of the Cretaceous period, from Wyoming and Kansas.
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