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Catoclesium. 
Pericarp leatherlike, not woody , covered ly the enlarged , 
lut not fleshy calyx . Chenopodium. PL 13, fig. 18 and 19. 
Sphalerocarpe. 
Sphalerocarpium. Pericarp leatherlike , not woody , co- 
hered hy the calyx become fleshy . Blitum. 
SCLERANTHE. 
Scleranthum, Dyclosium. Fh«7 consisting of a seed 
united with the bottom part of the hardened perigonium . 
Mirabilis Jalappa. PI. 13, fig. 20 to 23. 
Samara. 
Pterides, Pteridium. Fruit few-seeded , membranaceous , 
much compressed , one or two-celled , not opening , frequently 
enlarged on the edges into a wing or appendage. Fraxinus. 
PL 13, fig. 24, 25 and 26. 
Glans. 
Calybion. Fruit fleshy and feculent , one- celled, one- 
seeded , pericarp adhering closely to the seed , fastened by it's 
basis into a kind of leatherlike cup , cupule, formed of the 
scales of the involucrum. 
Open, Calybion apertum . Pericarp not totally hidden 
by the cupule. Quercus longseva. Corylus sylvestris. 
Pl. 14, fig. 2. 
Closed, clausum . Pericarp totally hidden. Fagus syl- 
vestris, Castanea vesca. PL 14, fig. 4. 
If One-corned, uniglans. Cupule containing only one 
pericarp. Corylus sylvestris, Quercus. Pl. 14, fig. 1. 
Three- corned, trig Ians . Castanea vesca. 
% Opening, dehiscens . Cupule opening by valves, like 
a capsule, when ripe. Castanea vesca, Fagus sylvestris. 
Not opening, indehiscens. Cupule remaining closed 
when ripe. Taxus, Ephedra. 
Drupelike, drupaceum. Cupule formed of two substances, 
the inner woody, the exterior juicy so as to resemble a 
drupe. 
Cupule , when in fruit. Vide p. 119. 
Sphaerical, Cupula spheerica , globosa. Castanea vesca. 
Hemispherical, hcemisphcerica. Quercus longseva. Pl. 14, 
fig. 2. 
