GYMNOCARPS. 



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compound fruits without valves or sutures, proceeding from 

 germs without any styles ; this order contains but one genus, 

 Flg> 75> Cenobion, which includes 



fruit of the labiate plants and 

 some others. This cut (Fig. 

 75), represents the pericarp of 

 the genus Gompliia ; it is com- 

 posed of five companions (a) as 

 Mirbel calls each of the one- 

 celled divisions w^iich stand 

 around an ovoid germ, desti- 

 tute of any style ; b represents 

 one of these divisions cut vertically; it contains one seed. 



ORDER 6th. Drupaces, simple, succulent fruits, containing 

 a nut. This order has but one genus, 



Drupe, which varies in form ; the apricot is round, the plum 

 elliptical. The AMYGDALis_perszca, or peach, (Fig. 76, a), is a 

 Fig. 76. 



succulent drupe, of a roundish form, and furrowed on the side ; 

 the nut is an ellipsoid, long, one-celled and one seeded ; b rep- 

 resents the peach deprived of one half of its pulpy exterior,* 

 and exposing the nut ; c represents the nut divested of one of 

 its valves and showing the seed (#). 



ORDER 7th. Baccati, (from bacca a berry) simple, succu- 

 lent fruits, containing many separate seeds. The genera in 

 this order are the following : 



Pyridion, (from perideo to lie around) ; this genus has its 

 fruit crowned with the adhering calyx. The pericarp is 

 fleshy, and has many cells, each of which contains one or more 

 seeds ; the embryo has two cotyledons. This genus contains 

 the apple and pear. The Apple, (Mains communis), (Fig. 77,) 



* Called panixtern. 



Genus Cenobion Order Drupaces Genus Drupe Order Baccati Genera 

 of the order Baccati Pyridion. 



