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ORGANOGRAPHY. 
BOOK I. 
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. StroMlus, 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^ a 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, 
Cinchona, 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. AcinuSy a soft, succulent, semi-transparent, unilocular 
berry, with one or two hard seeds ; as the Grape, 
Rivina, Rhipsalis, Rubus, Grossularia, &c. 
b. Pomum, a succulent or fleshy, two- or many-celled 
berry, the dissepiments of which are fleshy or bony, 
and coherent at the axis ; as Pyrus, Crataegus, Cydo- 
nia, Sapota, and others. 
