( ft ) 
"which, pulpy fubftance may probably be in- 
tended for the nourifhment of the young feeds,, 
Silique is a Pericarp of two valves, which va- 
ries in lize and figure, fome being long and 
larger, others round or broad and lefs. From 
their different forms Linneus has diflinguifhed 
them into Silicle and Silique, and on this dis- 
tinction has founded the Orders of one of his 
claffes : of the Silicle, which is round ifh, the 
feed-veflfels of Allyfon of Crete, Aly'lTum Sax- 
atile, furnifh an inftance, and alio thofe of 
Candy-tuft (iberis) ; the common wall-flower 
(cheiranthus), and cabbage (braffica), are ex- 
amples of the Silique. The Legume is dif- 
tinguimed from the Silicle and Silique by the 
manner in which the feeds are fixed to it's 
edges ; in the Silicle and Silique the Seeds 
are placed alternately on each fide of their 
futures, in the Legume they are fixed on one 
fide only; the Silique feed-veffels belong to the 
crofs-form flowers, the Legume to the papi- 
lionaceous ; and it is this part that we eat of 
firench-beans, and of fome kind of pease. Fol- 
licle is a bag that opens on one fide, which 
circumftance forms the diftinclion betwixt 
the Follicle and the Legume and Silique feed- 
veflels; Periwinkle, Vhica> and Swallow- wort, 
Afclepias, 
