OF THE ORGANS. 



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Plantago species. In the Geranium, the loose bladder spring- 

 ing up laterally terminates in a bill-shaped appendage, which 

 fixes itself to the pistil ; (Tab. I. Fig. 17.) Cocculi in cau- 

 dam longam terminati, Gasrt. Linnseus called this part, im- 

 properly, arillus. 



When a fruit of this kind is furnished with a membrana- 

 V ceous wing, it is called samara^ as in the Elm, and partly in 

 the Maple. 



On these simple fruits appear appendages, which serve 

 for their dispersion. Small chains {catenul^e), are attach- 

 ed to the seeds of the Jungermanni^, Marchantiae, and 

 Targionia hypophylla, (Tab. III. Fig. 8.) Thread-shaped 

 appendages, under the name of tails (cauda), are found in 

 the fruit of Clematis and Puccinia. Hairs, which spring 

 from the base, form the tuft (coma), as in Epilobium ; (Tab. 

 I. Fig. 13.) 



Further, the pappus {pappus) is an important part, being 

 the remnant of the covering calyx, which still continues in the 

 achenia of the Aggregatag and Compositae. It is bristly 

 (setaceus), when it consists of stiff hairs ; (Tab. I. Fig. 6.) 

 hairy (pilosus, capillaris), when it consists of soft long hairs ; 

 awned (aristatus), when the bristles are thick below, and 

 long ; plumose (plumosus), when the hairs are beset with 

 smaller hairs; pencil-shaped {pencillatus), when small hairs 

 stand on the top of the hairs, (Tab. I. Fig. 12.) ; chaffy 

 (paleaceus), when dry membranes crown the seed ; (Tab. 

 VIII. Fig. 8.) 



In the caryopses and achenia of the Umbelliferous plants, 

 the peculiar sap-vessels, under the external membrane, are 

 called vittas. The ribs of the fruit are called or costa ; 



the hollows, or small valleys between them, are called vah 

 licuIcE. 



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Pericarps are divided according to their compailments, 

 their valves, and their partitions. 



Compartments (locnli), are the chambers, or divisions of 

 the vessel containing the seed ; hence we say, bilocular, trilo- 



