DIFFERENT KINDS OF FRUIT. 



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or silicic, as in the shepherd's purse (Capsella), 

 cress, and others of the cruciferae (cf. Figs. 126, 127). 

 The fruits are sometimes lomentaceous (p. 143), as 

 in the radish (Fig. 128). 



Fig. 127. Silicic of Fig. 128. Lomentaceous Fig. 129. Capsule of 



Penny cress siliqua of Radish (Rapha- Autumn crocus (Col- 



(Tklaspi). D, trans- nus}. /, the separate chicum auiumnale). 



verse section ; v, dis- segments ; g, the style. /, the three separating 



sepiment ; s, seed. carpels ; ,the valves. 



(4) The capsule* is a syncarpous fruit, which may be 

 unilocular or multilocular (p. 119), when it dehisces 

 lengthways (longitudinal dehiscence), it sometimes 

 splits all the way down or nearly so (cf. Figs. 129, 

 140), or only at the top, forming notches or teeth, as 

 in the primrose, cowslip, chickweed (Cerastium) or 

 campion (Lychnis), cf. Dehiscence in the Appendix. 



* From the Latin " capsula," a little chest. 

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