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INTRODUCTION TO BOTANY. 
Ovoid, ovoidea. Ephedra. 
If Upright, erecta. The orifice turned towards the point 
opposite to the base of its support. Taxus, Ephedra. 
Reversed, resupinata. Fixed so that the orifice faces the 
base of its support. Podocarpus. 
For the characters of the pericarp, reference may be 
made to akenium. 
Nucule. 
Nucula, Nux. Fruit one-celled , one-seeded , not opening 
when ripe , with a long covering , the pericarp only slightly , 
or not distinct from the seed ; frequently sunk in an involu- 
crum . Corylus sylvestris, Corylus tubulosa. PL 14, fig. 4. 
Xylodium. 
Fruit like a nucule , hut without a cupule , and home upon a 
fleshy support. Anacardium. PI. 14, fig. 7. 
Carcerulus. 
Eacca sicca, Capsula indehiscens. Fruit not openings dry , 
many-celled , many-seeded . Tilia. PI. 14, fig. 8 and 9. 
Amphisarca. 
Capsula indehiscens. Fruit not opening , dry, many-celled , 
woody on the outside , pulpy internally. Adansonia. PI. 14, 
fig. 13. 
GYNOBASIC FRUITS. 
Fructus gynobasici, Cenobionares, Cenobia. Fruits simple , 
hut composed of four or more cells , eremi, so far apart that 
they appear like so many separate fruits ; hut are all home 
upon a gynolasis , more or less dilated and being the base of a 
single style . PI. 14, fig. 16 to 20. 
Two-celled, Cenobium bieremum. Cerinthe. 
Four-celled, quadri-eremum . Labiatae, Boragineae. 
Five-eremed, quinque-eremum. Gomphia nitida. PI. 14, 
fig. 16. 
Six-eremed, sex-eremum , &c. 
Eremes . 
Globular, Eremi glqbulosi. Collinsonia Canadensis, 
Salvia officinalis. 
Ellipsoidal, ellipsoidei. Salvia Hispanica, S. bicolor. 
