NOMENCLATURE OF THE FLOWER. 



44. The legume is characterized chiefly from its 

 figure, substance, and proportion. 



a. Figure may be roundish, oblong, ovate, linear, and so on. 



b. Substance may be woody, fleshy, pnlpy, membraneous, &c. 



c. Proportion may be long, short, very small, or very- great. 



45. Drupes are distinguished into the succulent and 

 dry, and from the number of seeds contained in each, 

 into one-seeded, two-seeded, and so on. 



a. Succulent when of a fleshy consistence, as the cherry, 

 plum, &c. 



b. Dry as with the horse-chesnnt, almond, and many others. 



40. This species of seed-vessel, has received no other 

 botanical appellations than those expressive of its form, 

 as oblong, round, and so on ; and those which denote 

 the number of its cells, as three-celled, four-celled, 

 and the like. 



BERRY. 



47. In addition to the division of berries into simple 

 and compound, they are further distinguished in the 

 language of botany, into one-seeded, two-seeded, and so 

 on ; and into proper and improper berries. 



a. Proper when it is formed, as is usual, of the germen or seed 

 bud. 



1). Improper when it is formed of any of the other parts of the 

 fructification. Thus, in the mulberry, the rose, and the blite, the 



