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1. Capsula^ hollow, and dehiscing in a determinate manner. 
2. Siliqua, two-valved, with the seeds attached to both sutures. 
3. Legumen., two-valved, with the seeds attached to one 
suture only. 
4. Conceptaculum^ one-valved, opening longitudinally on one 
side, and distinct from the seeds. 
5. Drupa, fleshy, without valves, containing a nut. 
6. Pomum^ fleshy without valves, containing a capsule. 
7. Bacca, fleshy without valves, containing naked seeds. 
8. Strobilus, an amentum converted into a pericarp. 
GARTNER has the following, with definitions annexed to 
them : — 
1. Capsula, a dry, membranous, coriaceous, or woody peri- 
carp, sometimes valveless, but more commonly dehiscing 
with valves. Its varieties are, — 
a. Utriculus, an unilocular one-seeded capsule, very thin 
and transparent, and constantly valvular ; as in Che- 
nopodium, Atriplex, Adonis. 
b. Samara, an indehiscent, winged, one or two-celled cap- 
sule ; as Ulmus, Acer, Liriodendron. 
c. Folliculus, a double one-celled, one-valved, membranous, 
coriaceous capsule, dehiscing on the inside, and either 
bearing the seed on each margin of its suture, or on a 
receptacle common to both margins; as Asclepias, Cin- 
chona, and Vinca. 
2. Nux, a hard pericarp, either indehiscent or never divid- 
ing into more than two valves; as in Nelumbium, Boragineae, 
and Anacardium. 
3. Coccum, a pericarp of dry elastic pieces or coccules, as in 
Diosma, Dictamnus, Euphorbia. 
4. Drupa, an indehiscent pericarp with a variable rind, very 
different in substance from the putamen, which is bony, as in 
Lantana, Cocos, Sparganium, Gaura, &c. 
5. Bacca, any soft pericarp, whether succulent or other- 
wise ; provided it does not dehisce into regular valves, nor 
contain a single stone adhering to it. Of this the following 
are kinds : — 
a. Acinus, a soft, succulent, semi-transparent, unilocular 
berry, with one or two hard seeds; as the grape, 
Rivina, Rhipsalis, Rubus, Grossularia, &c. 
