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bristly, prickly, or thorny ; viscid, or covered 

 with a glutinous matter usually fragrant ; glan- 

 dulous, glossy, rugged or covered with small 

 excrescences, or naked. In colour, it varies 

 between red, crimson, black, yellow, purple, 

 &c.; in consistency, between thin, fleshy, or 

 pulpy ; in position, between erect, inclining, 

 and drooping. The disk, may be wide or nar- 

 row, thin or thick, apparent or unapparent, 

 flat, arching, conical, or convex; closing the 

 mouth of the calyx, or having a wide opening 

 for the reception of the styles. 



The sepals are to be studied with regard to 

 their durability : they are either deciduous, or 

 perishable with the petals; durable, or falling 

 shortly before the maturity of the fruit ; or per- 

 manent, remaining fixed to the last. They are 

 either simple or composite; foliaged so as al- 

 most to have the appearance of a leaf; toothed, 

 wide, narrow, having appendages, &c. Their 

 pubescence admits of all the forms ascribed to 

 the tube of the calyx, and they may be divergent 

 or convergent. 



FRUIT. The fruit or matured form of the 

 ovarium, pericarp or tube of the calyx, is to 

 be studied with regard to colour, form, and 

 whether crowned with sepals, or naked. 



THE PEDUNCLE, OR FLOWER-STALK. The 

 peduncle is either single, to bear a solitary 



