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DOMESTIC BOTANY. 



Drupe, pulpy stone fruit, as plum, date, cherry, and 

 peach. Pejpo, a term applied to cucumber, melon, gourd, 

 and vegetable-marrow. Bacca, a berry, as gooseberry, 

 currant, and grape. Legume, a two-valved pod, as pea 

 and scarlet-runner. Follicle, a pod-like fruit, opening on 

 one side, as pseony, aconite, and the whole of the Protese 

 family (fig. 8,/). Siliqua and Silicula, a seed-pod of 

 the cabbage tribe, cress, and shepherd's purse (fig. 8, g). 

 Capsule, a dry fruit consisting of three or more parts 

 called valves, as horse-chestnut and stramonium (fig. 8, c) ; 

 Fig. 8. 



sometimes opening by pores on the apex, as in the 

 poppy (fig. 8, a), or by an operculum or lid, as in the 

 monkey-pot (Lecythis, fig. 8, b), and henbane (fig. 8, e). 

 Dry drupe, as the cocoa-nut. Glans, a one or several 

 seeded fruit contained in a cup or involucrum, as in oak, 

 hazel-nut, beech, and sweet-chestnut. Samara, a one- 

 seeded fruit, either seated in the centre of a thin mem- 

 brane, or at one end, called winged, as in elm, ash, and 

 maple. Achenium, a term applied to the fruit of the 

 whole of the Composite and Umbel family, the fruits of 

 which are generally called seeds ; they however consist 



