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 laminee 

 applied face to face and rolled together spirally in a longi- 

 tudinal direction. 



The above is extracted nearly verbatim from notes made on 

 the fresh fruit; but in more botanical language it will stand 

 thus: 



Fructus : pomum calyce baccato carpelloque solitario con- 



stans. 

 Epicarpium glabrum, tenue. 

 Sarcocarpium crassiusculum, farinoso-carnosum, subsiccum, 



endocarpio adhaerens. 

 Endocarpium uniloculare, indehiscens, clausum, osseum, 



durum, crassiusculum, glabrum, sutur4 distinct^, mono- 



spermum : setnine erecto. 

 Spermodermium tenue, glabrum, membranaceum. 

 Amygdala : cotyledonibus foliaceis, contiguis, convolutis. 



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