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The Alpine woad bears 

 oval-oblong silicles, with a 

 curious leafy-winged mar- 

 gin, 927. 



The spear-leaved smilax 

 bears three-celled berries 

 in umbelliferous heads, 

 928. 



The sand Malcomia 

 bears stiff, roundish, con- 

 stricted, and downy pods, 

 929. 



The tooth-leaved gold of 

 pleasure bears clove- 

 shaped berries, with in- 

 flated valves, and many- 

 seeded cells, 930. 



The crescent-podded 

 pterocarpus is so called 

 from its curious crescent- 

 shaped pods, 931. 



The hook-podded tera- 

 mus bears a delicately - 

 shaped legume, hairy, 

 constricted, and pendu- 

 lous, 932. 



The gigantic carpogon 

 produces a bearded pod, 

 the seeds lying, singly, 

 deeply embedded in the 

 coats of the pod, 933. 



The subterraneous vetch 

 bears sub-sessile pods, 

 shaped like a painter's 

 palette, and curiously 

 notched at the point, 934. 



The single-podded morse 

 vetch produces solitary 

 horse-shoe pods, falling to 

 pieces when ripe, 935. 



The Purslane - leaved 

 bird's-foot produces ex- 

 ceedingly slender pods, 

 resembling a bird's foot 

 in the manner of their 

 growth, 936. 



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The oval-leaved hedy- 

 sarum produces panicles 

 of curiously-notched te- 

 gumes, each partition con- 

 taining one seed. These 

 burst and scatter their 

 seeds when ripe, 937. 



The green-flowered hedy- 

 sarum bears also a pod 

 with one-seeded com- 

 pressed joints, but differ- 

 ing in their arrangement 

 from the former, 938. 



The glaucus acacia pro- 

 duces two-valved pods, 

 spirally twisted, the small 

 seeds forming a central 

 line, 939. 



The Arabic gum tree 

 produces long pods, com- 

 pressed, springing in pai?s, 

 from axillary stalks, 940. 



The moon-trefoil takes 

 its name from the Iwvte 

 form of its curious pods 

 941. 



The short-podded medick 

 produces an orbicular 

 ringed pod, one-seeded, 

 942. 



The spring medick pro- 

 duces a singular cochleate 

 (shell-like) pod, with an- 

 nular pointed folds, 943. 



The elegant medickbestra 

 a curious cochlea te pod, 

 spirally twisted, like the 

 shell of a snail, 944. 



The lancinated bryony 

 bears a pulpy fruit of 

 enormous length, which 

 twists and twines itself 

 like a snake, 945. This 

 fruit, which is a descrip- 

 tion of gourd, contains a 

 large number of oily seeds. 



The climbing securidaca 

 bears alternate seeds, 

 with large membranaceous 

 wings. The name is de- 

 rived from securis, a 

 hatchet, on account of 

 the form of the seeds, 

 946. 



