114 CARPOLOGY: FUNCTIONS AND STRUCTURE OF THE FRUIT 



In such case the carpels, after separating through their septa, are not 

 necessarily open, and unless the dehiscence shall follow the wall into and 



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Fig. 314. Fruit of Elateriuvi discharging its seeds and watery contents. 315. Loculicidally dehiscent 

 pod of 7ns. 316. Septicidally dehiscent pod of Hypericum. 317. Transverse diagram of a margini- 

 cidally dehiscent pod. 



Fig. 318. Apical dehiscence of Cerastium. 319. The same, Eucalyptus. 320. Circumscissile dehis- 

 cence of Mitracarpus. 321. Basal dehiscence of Jussiaea. 322. The same in Cinchona. 323. Apical 

 dehiscence of Ladenhcrgia. 324. Dehiscence by apical plug (6) in Berlholetia. 325. Apical dehiscence 

 of Psyllocarpus. 32C. Oblique dehiscence of Slaelia. 327. Partial dehiscence of Jeffersonia. 328. 

 Dehiscence by apical pore in Siphocampylos, 



through the ventral suture, which it more frequently does not, the 

 dehiscence will be Incomplete and the carpels may even act as separate 

 indehiscent fruits. If dehiscence occur at the dorsal suture (Fig. 315) 



