and Sempervivum glutinosum. 395 
little more than one-sixteenth of an inch ;' mealy, rather dry and 
insipid, much resembling in flavour the fruit of C. oxyacantha, 
but rather bitter. "When first cut or broken, the flesh is quite 
white internally, but changes almost immediately to a reddish 
rusty-brown if the cut or fracture be transverse, not so remark- 
ably if otherwise: it invests an uniformly single, one-celled 
carpell, of an ovate or rather oval form and smooth, i. e. not in 
any way conspicuously furrowed or even rough, with a slightly 
prominent suture up one side; but in all states perfectly closed, 
and not bursting or splitting open. "The substance of this (the 
endocarpium) is of irregular thickness, very hard and bony. 
Seed single, erect, narrow-elliptic, narrowing at each end, and 
even pointed at the upper; invested with a thin light-brown 
skin (spermodermium). Its substance (amygdala) is pale green- 
ish internally ; and a transverse section shows it to be beauti- 
fully convolute spirally, or composed of two leaves or lamine 
applied face to face andi rolled gne: VAM in à iore 
tudinal direction. TOL AOSI ; 
o ra ak ug Ee 5 
Tirage peyss 
The Ae is extracted nearly Verbal koui notes müde on 
the fresh fruit; but in more botanical language it will stand 
thus : 
Fructus: pomum calyce baccato carpelloque solitario con- 
stans. 
Epicarpium glabrum, tenue. 
Bercocar pium. crassiusculum, farinoso-carnosum, S 
spermum : Memi efecto. 0 
Spermodermium tenue, glabrum, membranaceum. ze | 
Amygdala: cotyledonibus foliaceis, contiguis, convolutis. ^ 
