496 STUDIES IN SEEDS AND FRUITS 



[b) Cakile maritima, dry fruit from England ; 



Upper joint, less seed .... 

 Seed of upper joint ..... 

 Lower joint, less seed .... 

 Seed of lower joint .... 



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(12) Canavalia gladiata, p. 326 — This is C. gladiata, DC, the variety 



with red seeds (see Note 5, p. 471). 



(13) Canavalia ensiformis, p. 326. — This is C.gladiata, DC, the variety 



{ensiformis) with white seeds (see Note 5, p. 471). 



(14) Canna indica, p. 326. — The pericarp, which makes up 39 per cent. 



of the moist fruit, is thus composed : — 



Outer soft tubercles or spines scaling 

 off as the fruit dries and losing 

 90 per cent, of their weight in the 

 process . . . . .10 per cent. 



Pericarp proper, which loses 80 per cent, 

 of its moist weight as the fruit 

 dries . . . . . , 29 „ 



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(15) Caryota, p. 327. — Regarding the fruit as a berry, the pericarp- 



proportion would be 22 per cent, in the dry fruit. 



(16) Citrus, p. 325. — In another moist fruit of the Common Orange 



{Citrus Aurantium), weighing 3500 grains and containing 15 



Proportion of Parts in Different Species of Citrus. 



Note that the number of the seeds is in brackets. 



