214 THELEGUMEN. 



Bignonia ech'mata, figured by Geertner, t. 5%f, 1, 

 which, though cautiously called by him a capsula 

 siliquosa only, is as true a Siliqua^ according to his 

 own definition, and every body's ideas, as possible ; 

 so is also that of Chelidonium. He justly indeed 

 names the fruit of Pceonia^ capsula leguminosa, a 

 follicle with him being a single-valved capsule, with 

 the seeds marginal as in a legume. 



Silicula^f, 1 8 1, a Pouch, is only a Pod of a short 

 or rounded figure, like Draba verna^ Engl. Bot. 

 t. 586. 



3., Legumen,f, 1 82, a Legume, is the peculiar solitary 

 fruit of the Pea kind, formed of two oblong valves, 

 without any longitudinal partition, and bearing the 

 seeds along one of its margins only. See Engl. Bot. 

 t. 1046, 805, &c. The Tamarind is a Legume 

 filled with pulp, in which the seeds are lodged. 

 The Capsules of Hellebomis and some other plants 

 allied thereto, justly indicated by Gaertner as ap- 

 proaching very nearly to the definition of Legumes, 

 differ essentially in not being solitary, and in con- 

 sisting each but of one valve. Some Larkspurs in- 

 deed bear such capsules solitary, but analogy teaches 

 us their true nature. 



When a Legume is divided into several cells, it is 

 either by transverse constrictions, or by inflexion of 

 the valves; never by a separate longitudinal parti- 

 tion ; see Dolichos purpin^eus, E.vot, Bot. t, 74. 



