A.VD PAPPUS. J95 



in Gsertncr, t. G(i, each having a double 

 skin and no more, which is onu covering 

 less than even the genuine nut jf the stone 

 fruit, or of the Cunjlus. In Gtraninm^ 

 Maioa, iScc, what lias often l)een called 

 A-'illus, is rather a kind of Capsule, not 

 crAy oecause their seeds have a double or 

 even triple skin, qirtc unconnected with 

 this outer cover, but because the latter is 

 analogou- to other Capsules. 



The loose husky covering of the seed in 

 Carex, f. 202, is surely an Arillus, See 

 Enrrl. Bot. also the Rev. Mr. Wood's obser- 

 Tations on this genus in Dr. Rees's Cyclo^ 

 pacha, and Ga3rtner, v. 1. 13. This seed 

 has besides a double Testa, thouoh most of 

 the true Grasses have but one, which in 

 ground Corn constitutes the bran, the huskj 

 of the blossom being the chaff. 



Pappus, the Seed-down, is restrained 

 by Ga:irtner to the cliaffy, 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 



