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and not fo rough s opening lengthways on one 

 fide, and the feeds are not faftened to it. 



The pod (filiqua) fig. 7. is compofed of 

 two lids, a, 0, which open from the bafe to- 

 ward the point, feparated by a diaphragm or 

 membraneous partition, to which the feeds are 

 faftened by an umbilical cord* 



A leguminous pod [legiimen) fig. 8. is an 

 oblong cover of two fhells joined above and 

 below by a longitudinal future -, the feeds, q^ q^ 

 are faftened alternately to the upper border of 

 each ihell. Moft of the pulfe are of this kind. 



A ^\\im{dn4pa) is a fruit compofed of a flefhy 

 foft plup inclofing a nut or ftone in the middle. 



A berry ibacca) inclofes many naked feeds 

 in the middle of a fucculent pulp. 



An apple {j)omu?n) is a fruit compofed of 

 a folid fieftiy pulp, in the middle of which 

 are little ceils with membranaceous covers, in 

 which the kernels or feeds are inclofed. . 



A cone (Jirobilus) is a hard dry fruit, ge- 

 nerally of a conical form, compofed of many 

 fcales lying over each other like the tiles of an 

 houfe, or the fcales of fi(h. 



VI. Seeds are alfo diftinguifhed into two 

 forts, viz. nuts, and grains or feeds. 



The nut is a fruit with a hard (hell, inclofing 

 the true feed. 



The 



