THE FKDTT AND SEED. 



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bine or pseonia. Each carpel is a follicle, and you 

 may find them slightly coherent at the base, as if 

 forming a transition between the apocarpous and 

 syncarpous pistil. 



LEGUME. A pod of a single carpel, with dorsal 

 and ventral sutures and dehiscing by both or either, 

 as the pea and bean pod. It assumes many different 

 forms. 



One of these, the LOMENT, is a sort of legume with 

 transverse joints between the seeds, and falling to 

 pieces at these joints (Fig. 229). 



Another variety, the SILIQTJE, is a two-valved, 

 slender pod, with a false dissepiment, from which 

 the valves separate in dehiscence. It has two parie- 

 tal placentae (Fig. 230). 



FIG. 229. 



FIG. 230. 



FIG. 231. 



FIG. 232. 



SILICLE. A short, broad silique (Fig. 231). 

 PYXIS. A pod which dehisces by the falling off 

 of a sort of lid (Fig. 232). 



