256. EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 
PLATE THE FOURTEENTH, | 
Fruits. 
Fig. i. Quercus longeva. Corylidee. Glands. cut 
lengthways, coriaceous, one-celled, one-seeded; seed pend- 
run without a perisperm; radicle adverse; cotyledons large, 
fles - “SY rie 
hy %. The cupule of the same, with two abortive 
glands. : 
Fig. 3.. Carpinus. ulmoides. Corylidee. Nucule, or 
calybion, boney, ovate, angular, with. threadlike, longitu- 
dinal ribs. 
Fig. 4. Corylus tubulosa. Corylideee. Cupule tubular, 
cylindrical, jagged, toothed. 
Fig. 5. Corylus sylvestris. Corylidee. . Nucule,, or ca- 
lybion, parted lengthways to show the seed; umbilical cord 
rising from the base and ascending; seed pendent, - 
Fig. 6. Cotyledon-of the same, with the place in which 
the embryo is seated. 
Fig. 7. Anacardium. officinale. Terebiniacee. Xylo- 
dium, or carcerule, seated upon.a fleshy. receptacle. _ 
Fig. 8. Tilia parvifolia, Tiliacee, Carcerule opened; 
cells two-seeded. ey ae 
Fig. 9. The carcerule of the same.cut transyersely,, cells 
five. 
Fig. 10. Asarum Europeum. Aristolochia. . Carcerule 
cut transversely ;. cells six; partitions incomplete. 
Fig. 11., Carcerule of the same opened, cells four-seeded, 
seeds ascending. 
Fig. 12. Embryo of tilia_ parvifolia; cotyledons leaflike, 
three-lobed, toothed, incumbent. 
Fig. 13. Adansonia Baobab.. Malvacee.. Amphisarca | 
cut transversely, cells ten. 
Fig. 14. A portion of the spongy, farinaceous pulp taken 
out of the cells of the same, interwoven with thready 
fibres. 
Fig. 15. The. point. of the pulp, dissected: to, show. the 
seeds,,of the natural size. 
Fig. 16. Gomphia nitida. Ochnacee.. Sarcobasis.five- 
eremed; gynophore ovoid; eremes one-celled, one-seeded ; 
seed straight, coated, without a perisperm; embryo straight, 
radicle opposite. yr 
