232 DESCRIPTION OF THE MUSEUM. 



seeds employed for necklaces and other or- 

 naments. 



The two compartments on the left of the en- 

 trance, contain the fruit of the nettle and gourd 

 families, urticce and cucurbitacece, and of the 

 terebinthacece, or resinous trees. 



There is also a collection of the walnuts of 

 North America, by M. Michaux, exhibited by dif- 

 ferent sections ; one of gourds presented by 

 M. Duchene, who has published a treatise on that 

 family (i) ; cashew nuts with the fleshy husk in 

 which they are embedded ; the apple of the 

 manchineel, hippomane mancinella ; the fruit of 

 the sandbox-tree, hura crepitans, which is bound 

 with wire to prevent its exploding ; the ambora P 

 whose fruit forms the transition between the fig 

 and the mulberry ; the jaca-tree ; and all the va- 

 rieties of the bread-fruit, artocapus, either dried 

 or preserved in spirits. 



The next case contains a collection of cones of 

 the pines and larches, most of which were ga- 

 thered in North America by M. Michaux, and some 

 beautiful specimens of the Chili pine, araucaria, 

 brought over by Dombey. The last on that 

 side comprises the fruit of the genera not yet 

 classed, or, as they are termed by botanists, in- 



(i) The drawings for this work have been procured for the library of 



the Museum. 



