BS BOTANY FOR BEGINNER.* L CL XIV. 



hodow pericarp > which spontaneously opens by pores, as the 



poppy, or by valves, as in the Mullein. 



Fig. 60. 357. Fig. 60, a, represents the cap- 



sule of one species of Lily, the Maria- 

 gon, as it appears after the opening oi 

 the valves or pieces which compose the 

 pericarp. At b is the same capsule re 

 presented as cut crosswise, shewing the 

 seeds as they lie in their dife*nt cell* 



358. 2d. SILIQUE, or Siliqua, is a two-valved pericarp or pod, 

 with the seeds attached alternately to its opposite edge, as Bus- 

 tard and Radish. The proper silique is two-celied, hein fur- 

 nished with a membrane, which runs the whole length oi this 

 idnd of pericarp, forming a partition; upon this the see' 4 * aie 

 aranged. See Fig. 69 D. b. 



357. What does Fig. 60 represent 1 



358. Describe the silique. 



