300 PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 
TICIDAL DEHISCENCE is that form in which the constituent carpels 
of a fruit become disjoined, and then open along their ventral 
suture, as in Colchicum and Marsh St. John’s Wort capsules. 
LocuticiDAL DEHISCENCE, or dehiscence into loculi or cells, is 
the form which is seen when each component carpel splits down 
its dorsal suture, and the dissepiments or partition walls separat- 
ing the ripened carpels remain intact, as in Cardamomand Iris. 
SEPTIFRAGAL DEHISCENCE is that form in which there occurs a 
breaking away of the valves from the septa or partitions, as in 
Stramonium and Morning Glory fruits. 
CLASSIFICATION OF Fruits (according to structure).—SIMPLE 
Fruits result from the ripening of a single pistil in a flower, as 
the Tomato or Banana. 
AGGREGATE FRuits are the product of all the carpel ripenings 
in one flower, the cluster of carpels being crowded on the ripened 
receptacle forming one mass, as in the Raspberry, Blackberry, 
Dewberry and Strawberry. 
Muttipte. Fruits are those which are the product of the 
ripening of a flower cluster instead of a single flower, as the Fig 
and Pineapple. 
Simple and Compound fruits are either Dry or Fleshy. The 
first may be divided into Dehiscent, those which split open when 
ripe; and Indehiscent, those which do not. 
SIMPLE Fruits: 
I. Capsular (dehiscing). 
Dry < II. Schizocarpic (splitting). 
III. Achenial (indehiscent). 
S os Baccate (berries). 
ucculent ; 
V. Drupaceous (stone fruits). 
The Capsuxar fruits include all of those, whether formed of 
one or more carpels, which burst open to let their seeds escape. 
Scuizocarpic or splitting fruits are those in which each carpel 
or each half carpel (in Labiate) splits asunder from its neighbor 
and then falls te the ground. The split portion is one-seeded. 
ACHENIAL fruits are dry, one-celled, one-seeded and indehis- 
cent at the time of final ripening. 
Baccate fruits are such in which the endocarp always and the 
mesocarp usually becomes succulent and so the seeds lie in the 
