AND PAPPUS. 299 



in Goertner, t. 66, each having a double 

 skin and no more, which is one covering 

 less than even the genuine nut of the stone 

 fruit, or of the Con/his. In Geranium^ 

 Malta, &c, what has often been called 

 Arillus, is rather a kind of Capsule, not 

 only because their seeds have a double or 

 even triple skin, quite unconnected with 

 this outer cover, but because the latter is 

 analogous to other Capsules. 



The loose husky covering of the seed in 

 Carex is surely an Arillus. See Engl. Bet. 

 also the Rev. Mr. Wood's observations on 

 this genus in Dr. Rees's Cyclopaedia^ and 

 Gaertner, v. 1. 13. This seed has besides a 

 doable Testa, though most of the true 

 Grasses have but one, which in ground 

 Corn constitutes the bran, the husks of 

 the blossom being the chaff. 



Pappus, the Seed-down, is restrained 

 by Gaertner to the chaffy, feathery, or 

 bristly crown of many seeds that have no 

 Pericarpium, and which originates from a 

 partial calyx crowning the summit of each 

 of those seeds, and remaining after the 



