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ORGANOGRAPHY. 
BOOK I. 
11. Legumerij a dry elongated pericarp consisting of two 
valves externally forming two sutures. Leguminosae. 
12. Lomentum, a legumen divided internally by spurious 
dissepiments, not dehiscing longitudinally, but either remain- 
ing always closed, as in Cathartocarpus fistula, or separating 
into pieces at transverse contractions along its length, as in 
Ornithopus. 
The following are enumerated as spurious fruits : — 
13. Strobihis, an Amentum the scales of which have be- 
come woody. Pin us. 
14. Spurious capsule. Fagus, Rumex, Carex. 
15. Spurious nut. Trapa, Coix, Mirabilis. 
16. Spurious drupe. Taxus, Anacardium, Semecarpus. 
17. Spurious hacca. Juniperus, Fragaria, Basella. 
By this author the names of fruits are, perhaps, more 
loosely and inaccurately applied than by any other. 
Link objects to applying particular names to variations in 
anatomical structure ; observing, “ that botanists have strayed 
far from the right road in distinguishing these terms by cha- 
racters which are precise and difficult to seize. Terms are 
only applied to distinct parts, as the leaf, peduncle, calyx, and 
stamens, and not to modifications of them. Who has ever 
thought of giving a distinct name to a labiate or papilionaceous 
corolla, or who to a pinnated leaf? ” But this sort of reason- 
ing is of little value, if it is considered that the fruit is subject 
to infinitely greater diversity of structure than any other 
organ, and that names for these modifications have become 
necessary, for the sake of avoiding a minute explanation of 
the complex differences upon which they depend. Besides, 
to admit, as Link actually does, such names as capsula, &c., 
is abandoning the argument ; and when the following defini- 
tions, which this learned botanist has proposed, are considered, 
I think that little doubt will exist as to whether terms 
should be employed in the manner recommended by himself, 
or with the minute accuracy of the French. According to 
Professor Link, the following are the limits of carpological 
nomenclature : — 
1, Capsula, any dry, membranous, or coriaceous, pericarp. 
2. Capsella, the same, if small and one-seeded. 
