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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, 

 E)igl. Bot. t. 1 692, and some other plants. This 

 term however may well be dispensed with, especially 

 as it is the name of a genus in Linnaeus ; an objec- 

 tion to which Cotijkdon too is liable. 



Foliiciilus, 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 Gcertner reckons it. This is of one valve 

 and one cell, bursting lengthwise, and bearing the 

 seeds on or near its edges, or on a receptacle parallel 

 therewith. Listances are found in Vincciy t. 514, 

 Pceonia.t. 1JI3, and Emhothrium, Bot. of Nexv 

 Holland, t, 7— 10. 



Caecum of Ga)rtner, separated by him from cap- 

 sules, is a dry seed-vessel, more or less aggregate, 

 not solitary, whose sides are elastic, projecting the 

 seeds with great force, as in Euphorbia \ also 

 Boronia, Tracts on Nat. History, t. 4—7. This 

 seems by no means necessary to be esteemed other- 

 wise than a sort of capsule. 



2. Siligua,J'. 180, a Pod, is alongdry solitary seed-vessel 

 of two valves, separated by a linear receptacle, along 

 each of whose edges the seeds are ranged alternately, 

 as in the class Tetradijnamia, See Cheiranthus, 

 Engl. Bot. t. 462, and Cardamine, t. 80'; also 



