BOTANIC TERMS. 



589 Germen, the immature rudiment of the fruit within the 



flower. 



590 Superum, when included in the corollas. 



591 Inferum, when below the corollse. 



592 Stylus, that part of the pistillum which elevates the 



stigma from the germen. 



593 Stigma, the female uterus, at the top of the pistil, fur- 



nished with a moist humour. 



594 Pericarpium, the womb of the plant big with the seeds, 



which it emits when mature. 



595 Capsula, a hollow pericarpium, which cleaves or opens 



in some determinate manner. 



596 Valvula, an opening, a part of the capsule, or outer 



cover to the fruit. 



597 Loculameirhim, a kind of arched cell, for the lodge- 



ment of the seeds. 



598 Dissepimentum,' partitions of the fruit, which divide the 



pericarpium into cells. 



599 Bicapsularis, two capsules, Tricapsularis, &c. three 



capsules, or according to the number. 



600 Bilocularis, &c. two cells, &c. according to the num- 



ber. 



601 Tricocca, a capsule, with three protuberant knobs, 



which divide into three cells. 



602 Didyma, a capsule with two gibbous knobs, which di- 



vide into two cells. 



603 Siliqua, a pericarpium of two valves, in which the seeds 



are fixed alternately to the opposite sutures. 



$04 - Compressa, flatted, the opposite sides coming 



nearly together. 



605 ' Torulosa, brawny protuberances, when the pe- 



ricarpium is bunched out by the seeds. 



606 Articulata, interrupted by arched joints. 



607 Parallelum Dissepimentum, the width or diameter of 



the dissepiment to which the valves adhere. 



608 Transversum dissepimentum, dissepiments running cross- 



wise. 



609 Legumen, a pericarpium of two valves, the seed fixed 



to one suture only. 



610 Isthmis interceptum, pods with various* cross divisions, 



forming distinct cells. 



611 Folliculus, a pericarpium of one valve, gaping length- 



wise on one side, without the seeds being fixed to the 

 suture. 



612 Dru- 



