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BIIRBEL"^ CLASSIFICATION OF FRUITS. 



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Order 4th. Etaipjonnair, (from etairoi, associates.) contains com- 

 pound fruits, proceeding from ovaries, bearing the styles ; this order 

 contains two genera. 



A Double FolUclr, as in the milk-weed, (ascie 



f/i\ pias.) having two follicles, each formed of one 



' "^ valve, folded lengthwise, and adhering at it? 



edges. 

 r";.s^ Etairon*^ having many seeds ranged round 

 ^the imaginary axis of the llower, as the ranun- 

 culus and anemone. 



Here is the fruit, (Fig. P9,) of the Acovifum, 

 (monk's-hood.) which belongs to this order; it 

 is composed of three pods united in one com- 

 pound fruit; a, shows one of the valves in a 

 dehiscent state ; b, represents a seed cut longi- 

 tudinally. 



The Clematis is a caudate etairon, the Pcconia 

 is divergent and dehiscent. 

 Order 5th. Cenoeionnair, (from koinobiov, a community.) com- 

 pound fruits without valves or sutures, proceeding from ovaries 

 without any adhermg styles ; this order contains but one genus. 



Cenobion,-\ includes fruit of the labi- 

 ate^ plants and some others. Figure 

 100, represents the pericarp of the ge- 

 nus Gomphia ; it is composed of live 

 i-ovipanions, o, as Mirbel calls each of 

 the one -celled divisions which stand 

 around an ov^oid germ, destitute of any 

 style; b, represents one of these divis- 

 sions cut vertically; it contains one 

 seed. 



Order Gth. Drupaces, simple, succu- 

 This order has but one genus. 

 Dj'i/.pe, this pericarp is composed of a woody or bony panintern,J 

 called the nut, and of a panextern.t sometimes dry and membra- 

 nous, at others fleshy or pulpy; this character ispecuUar tothis fruit. 

 It may be regular or irregular, monocephalous or polycephalous, 

 adhering to the calyx or free. The cherry has a pulpy panextern, 

 the peach fleshy, the walnut woody. The amygdalls persica^ Fig. 

 101, a, is a succulent drupe, of a roundish form, and furrowed on the 

 side ; the nut of this drupe is aneUipsoid, one-celled and one-seeded. 



Fig. 101. 



100. 



ent fruits, containing a nut. 





* The syncarp of Richard. 



t Called by l)e Candolle, Sarcabase and Microbase. 



t The pane.xtern includes what is sometimes called epicarp and sarcocarp, the pan- 

 tntern is the same as the endoc arp. 



Order Etairionnnir— Double Follicle— Etairon— Describe the fruit of the Aconituin- 

 Order Cenobionnair— Cenobion— Order Diupaces— Drupo. 



