AUTHOR S METHOD. 

 155 156 



[Uf'OK I. 



159 



163 



160 



161 



158 157 



154. Pyxidium of Anagallis. 155. Cremocarpium of Apiaceas. 156. Cremocarpium of 

 Apiaceae cut across. 157. Siliqua of Cruciferae. 158. Siliqua of Cruciferae with the valves 

 separating. 159. Siliqua of Cruciferae cut across. 160. Cremocarpium of Apiacese. 



161. Cremocavpium of A piacese with the halves separating from their axis. 162. Dacca. 



163. Etasrio of Rubus. 164. Etaerio of Boraginaceae. 



CLASS III. Fruit compound. SYNCARPI. 

 Ovaria compound. 



Sect. 1. Fruit superior. 

 A. Pericarpium dry. 



X. CARYOPSIS. (Cariopsis, Rich. ; Cerio, Mirb.) 



One-celled, one-seeded, superior, indehiscent, dry, with the integuments of 

 the seed cohering inseparably with the endocarpium, so that the two areundis- 

 tinguishable; in the ovarium state evincing its compound nature by the pre- 

 sence of two or more stigmata; but nevertheless unilocular, and having but 

 one ovulum. 



Examples. Wheat, Barley, Maize. 



XI. REGMA, Mirb. (Elaterium, Rich. ; Capsula tricocca, Z.) 



Three or more celled, few-seeded, superior, dry, the cells bursting from the 

 axis with elasticity into two valves. The outer coat is frequently softer than 

 the endocarpium or inner coat, and separates from it when ripe ; such regmata 

 are drupaceous. The cells of this kind of fruit are called cocci. 

 Euphorbia. 



XII. CARCERULUS, Mirb. (Dieresilis, Mirb.; Coenobio, Mirb.; Synochorion, 

 Mirb. ; SterJgmum, Desvaux ; Microbasis, Desvaux; Polexostylus, Mirb. ; 

 Sarcobasis, Dec., Desv.; Baccaularius, Desv.) 



Many-celled, superior : cells dry, indehiscent, few-seeded, cohering by a 

 common style round a common axis. From this the Dieresilis of Mirbel does 

 not differ in any essential degree. The same writer calls the fruit of Labi- 

 atee (fi(j. 162.), which Linneeus and his followers mistake for naked seeds, 



