THE PISTIL. 



FIG. 



353- 



FIG. 352. 



of columbine or paeonia. Each car- 

 pel 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. 348). 



Another variety, the SILIQUE, is a two-valved, slender 

 pod, with a false dissepiment, from which the valves sep- 

 arate in dehiscence. It has two parietal placentae (Fig. 



349)- 



SILICLE. A short, broad silique (Fig. 350). 



PYXIS. A pod which dehisces by the falling off of a 

 sort of lid (Fig. 351). 



CAPSULE. The pod of a compound pistil ; the dry, 

 dehiscent fruit of syncarpous pistils (Figs. 352 and 353). 

 The pieces into which a capsule falls at dehiscence are 

 called valves, the same as in one-carpeled fruit. 



Those fruits that consist of achenia on a dry recepta- 

 cle, as the sunflower, or on an enlarged, pulpy receptacle, 

 as the strawberry, or those which consist of small drupes 



