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CLASSIFICATION OF FRUITS. 



In this order is the genus cremorcarp (from krejnao, to sus- 

 pend, and karposj fruit), having a pericarp divisible into two 

 seeds, as the coriander, parsley, &c. The other genera in this 

 order are, 



Regniate (from regma, opening with noise), containing many 

 seeds, which are enclosed by two valves, opening by an elastic 

 movement, as euphorbia. 



Dieresil, a variable genus, containing such fruits in the or- 

 der Dieresilia as do not properly come under the two other 

 divisions, as the nasturtion, geranium, &c. 



Fig. 73. You see here 



(Fig. 78), a fruit 

 of the order Die- 

 I resilia ; it belongs 

 I to the genus Reg- 

 mate. It natu- 

 rally divides into 

 four seeds ; a rep- 

 resents the entire fruit, and b the same cut transversely, shew- 

 ing its four seeds. 



ORDER 4th. Etairionnair (from etairoi, associates), con- 

 taining compound fruits, proceeding from a germ to which the 

 style adheres ; the genera are, 



Double Follicle, as in the milk weed (asclepias), having two 

 follicles, each formed of one valve, folded lengthwise, 



Etairon, having many seeds ranged round the imaginary 

 axis of the flower, as the ranunculus and anemone. 



Fig. 74. 



Here is the fruit (Fig. 74) of the Aco- 

 nitum (monk's hood), which belongs to 

 this order ; it is composed of three pods 

 united in one compound fruit ; a shows 

 >ne of the valves in a dehiscent state ; b 

 represents a seed cut longitudinally. 



ORDER 5th. Cenobionnair, (from koinobion, a community) 



Genera in the order Dieresilia Genus Regmate Dieresil Order Etairion- 

 nair Genera in the order Etairionnair Double Follicle Etairon Describe 

 the fruit of the Aconitum Order Cenobionnair. 



