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_ S. Vess. Berry globular, with 5 cells. / 
SEEDS 5, large, bulging on 1 side, angular on the other, 
covered with a seed-coat. 
Oss. With us the berry has rarely more than 4 cells, arid 
in general only 2 or 3 seeds attain perfection ; but. sometimes 
I have found it with 5 cells, and 5 perfect seeds, 
ILLE/CEBRUM. Tourn. 288, Paronychia. 
Cau. Cup 5 leaves and 5 angles, gristly. Leafits coloured, 
tapering to a point, distant at the points, permanent. 
Buoss. none. } 
Stam. Filaments 5, hair-like, within the cup. -Anthers 
simple. 7 
Pisr. Germen egg-shaped, acute, ending in a short cloven 
___style. Swmmut simple, blunt... - 
‘S. Vzss. Capsule roundish, tapering at each end, with 5 
valves and 1 cell, covered by the cup. Aengac 
SEED single, very large, roundish, but acute at each end... 
Ons. The fruit varies in several species. Linn. 
_ GLAU’. Town. 60. 
CAL. none, unless you consider the blossom as ‘such. 
Bross. Petal single, upright, with 5 divisions, —bell- 
shaped, permanent. Segments blunt, rolled back. __ 
Stam. Filaments 5, awl-shaped, upright, as long as the 
. blossom. ene el - as Mapes f 
Ist. Germen egg-shaped. t -8 , as long 
as the iene Summit a ob: Le 
S$. Vuss. Capsule globular, tapering to a point, of 1 cell 
and 5 valves. kd 
SgEps 5, roundish. Recepéacle very large, globular, with 
hollows where the seeds lie. 
THE’SIUM. Jacq. austr.410. 
Caz. Cup 1 leaf, permanent, turban-shaped, with 5 shal- 
_ lowclefts. Ss fark half-spear-shaped, upright, blunt. 
Bross. none, unless you consider the cup as such, from 
its being coloured on the inside. 
Sram. Filaments 5, awl-shaped, inserted at the base of 
- the segments of the cup, shorter than the cup. dnthers 
roundish, . - 
