THE CAPSULE AND ITS KINDS. 2*9 



rather than a Capsule. Gaertner applies it 

 to C/ienopodium, as well as to Clematis, 

 Sec. In the former it seems a Tellicula^ 

 in the latter a I'eata, as we shall hereafter 

 explain. 



Samara is indeed a species of Capsule, 

 of a compressed form and dry coriace- 

 ous texture, with one or two cells, never 

 bursting, but falling off entire, and dilated 

 into a kind of wing at the summit or sides. 

 It is seen in the Elm, the Maple, the Ash, 

 EngL Bot. /. 1(j92, and some other plants. 

 This term however may well be dispensed 

 with, especially as it is the name of a genus 

 in Linnaeus; an objection to which Co- 

 ii/ledoii too is liable. 



FoUicuhts, a Follicle or Bag, reckoned 

 by Linnaeus a separate kind of seed-vessel 

 from the Capsule, ought perhaps rather to 

 be esteemed a form of the latter, as Gjert- 

 ner reckons it. This is of one valve and 

 one cell, bursting lengthwise, and bearing 

 the seeds on or near its edo-es, or on a re- 

 ceptacle parallel therewith. Instances are 

 found in Vinco, t. 514, Paotiia, t 1.513, 

 and Embothrhim, Bot, of 'New Holland, 

 t. 7—10. 



