THE FEUIT. 



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a border with tlie concavity outside; the bottom of this border rolls over the 

 concavity, and ruptures the wall of the ovary, forming between each sepal a little 

 round protuberance, and the seeds escape 

 by pores which are on a level with their 

 placentas. In the Snapdragon (fig. 645), 



540. Mignonette. 

 Fruit. 



542. Lychnis. 

 Fi-uit. 



545. Snapdragon. 

 JFruit. 



544. Harebell. 

 Pruit. 



the upper carpel, that next the axis, opens near the persistent style by small free 

 valves ; the lower carpel, which is gibbous below, opens by two similar collateral 



valves, also near the style. The entire fruit, when seen 

 in front, resembles a monkey's face, the style being the 

 nose, the hole of the upper carpel the mouth, the two other 

 holes the eyes, and the persistent calyx a head-dress. 



The siliqua (siliqua) is a capsule with two carpels ; 

 it is properly one-celled {Ghelidonium, fig. 646), but usually 



646. 



Ghelidonium 



IJruit. 



548. 

 "Whitlow-grass. 

 Fruit (mag.). 



649. Cochlearia. 

 Fruit. 



660. Thlaspi. 

 Fruit (mag.). 



551. Bunias, 

 Fruit. 



552. Bunias. 

 Fruit, open. 



two-celled by a spurious membranous septum, and opens from bottom to top by 

 two valves, the seed-bearing parietal placentas persisting {Wallflower, fig. 547). 

 The silicule {silicula) is a siliqua of which the length r"^ 

 does not much exceed the breadth {Whitlow-grass, fig. '"' 



548 ; Cochlearia, fig. 549; Thlaspi, fig. 560). In some 

 cases the siliqua is lomentaceous, separating transversely 

 into one-seeded joints {Baddsh). In the Bunias (figs. 

 551, 652), each of the two cells of the silicule is two- 

 seeded and two-celled, by a longitudinal septum. In 



Oramhe (fig. 553), the siHcule is compressed, and ,53. crambe. 554. Myagr.™. 



originaUy consists of two unequal one-seeded cells, but fi'^''. "p^"- i^-uit,open. 



whilst the seed of the upper cell becomes developed, that of the lower ceU is 

 arrested, its funicle being strangled in the septum ; and the result is a one-seeded 



