THE FIIUIT. 



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will, perhaps, be surprised to hear that the orange and 

 citron are berries ; but if you will remember what consti- 

 tutes a berry, seeds imbedded in a pulpy mass, 

 you will immediately recognize them as berries, 

 gigantic though they be. ^llii 



147. A pericarp of two valves, that is, having fig. io7. 

 only one suture, one cell, and one row of seeds, is called 

 leguminotis (Fig. 108) : peas and beans are leguminous. A 

 siliqne has two valves, two cells, and two rows of seeds ar- 

 ranged upon the membrane forming the divisions of the 

 cells : mustard seed-pods are siliques. When this pod is very 

 short and broad, as in the cat-bell, it is called a silicle (Fig. 

 110). A follicle is a pericarp of one valve, opening lon- 



FiG. 109.— Seeds in a Pod. 



Fig. 110. 

 Silicle. 



gitudinally, with seeds lying loose within. The follicle 

 may be simply one pod, or compound, two or many. 



148. When the fully ripe pericarp opens by pores, it is 

 called a capsule, as the poppy and hollyhock. The word 

 capsule means box or chest. 



149. The strohilium pericarp (Fig. Ill) is a cone or spike 

 with seeds inclosed by scales, each scale having covered a 

 flower. A strobile may be regarded as an exaggerated ament 

 or catkin, hardened into almost woody scales. The cedar. 



147. What are legnminons seeds? What is a sillque! 



148. What is a capsule? Examples? 



149. A Ptrobilinm? Examples? 



A silicle ? A follicle ? 



