CLASSIFICATION OF FRUITS. 



Fig. 77. 

 C 



has a round fleshy pericarp, crowned with the calyx; tin 

 seeds are enclosed in five cells, ranged around in the centre ; 

 the cells are composed of membranaceous valves. The s 

 are tunicated or coated ; a represents an entire Pyridion ; b the 

 same cut vertically ; and c the same cut transversely.* 



Pepon (hompepon a melon), having a pulpy interior, contain- 

 ing many seeds ; the cucumber, melon, &c. belong to this ge- 

 nus. Here is the fruit (Fig. 78) CUCUMIS anguria, sometimes 



Fig. 78. 

 L A i, 



a 



called prickly cucumber ; a represents the entire pcpon, which 

 is spinous, three-celled and many seeded : as is shown by th<> 

 same fruit cut transversely, as at b ; c represents a seed which 

 is tunicated and dicotyledonous : d the same cut vertically. 



Bacca, containing all the fruits of this order not found in the 

 other genera. The currant, whortleberry, orange, barberry, 

 pericarp of the potatoe, grape, &c. are found here. In this 



* A singular fact is observable in the fruit of the apple : when cut in slices 

 transversely, it exhibits in its substance an exact representation of the five pe- 

 tals which existed in the flower ; I have never in any botanical work met with 

 a notice of this phenomenon, and know not on what physiological principles 

 it can be explained. 



Pepon Dacca. 



