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the seed ; generally indehiscent, but rarely opening in a trans- 
verse manner. Examples of this kind of fruit may be seen in 
Amaranthus and Chenopodium (fig. 696). 
Fic. 695 Fic. 696. 
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Fig. 695. Vertical section of the drupe of the Cherry. ep. Epicarp. en. En- 
docarp. mt. Mesocarp. g. Seed with embryo.— fig. 696. Utricular fruit 
of Chenopodium, surrounded by the persistent calyx. 
b. Apocarpous Fruits.— Under this name we include those 
fruits which are formed of a single matwre carpel or ovary, but of 
which two or more are produced by a single flower. The simple 
fruits just described are frequently placed by botanists under this 
head, together with those to which we are now about to allude. 
Apocarpous fruits are also sometimes called multiple, and this 
latter term is again applied by others to those fruits which are 
the produce of several flowers. We distinguish three kinds 
of Apocarpous fruits :—The Follicle, the Achzenium, and the 
Etzerio. 
1. The Follicle.—This is a superior, one-celled, one- or many- 
seeded fruit, dehiscing by one suture only, which is commonly 
Fia. 697. Fic. 698. Fic. 699. 
Fig. 697, Follicles of the Columbine (A qutlegia ).——Fig. 698. Fol- 
licles of the Aconite (Aconitum).——Fig. 699. Follicles of the 
Peony (Peonia). 
the ventral, and is consequently one-valved (jig. 666). By the 
latter character it is known at once from the legume, which 
opens, as we have seen, by two sutures, and is two-valved ; in 
