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«[f Opening inwardly, intus dehiscent es. Aconitum, 
Trollius Europaeus, Poeonia. PL 17, fig. 18. 
Opening outwardly, extns dehiscentes . Magnolia. 
Not opening, indehiscentes. Ranunculus, Liriodendrum. 
Hemigyrus. 
Fruit woody , opening on one side , one or two-celled , eacji of 
which are one or two-seeded, Proteacese. 
Cod. 
Legumen. Fruit irregular , membranaceous , two-valued , 
rarely three or four-valued, with a pistillary cord divided into 
two branches running parallelly along the upper suture , 50 
Z/ia/ the seeds are attached along this suture , alternately to 
one and the other valve . Leguminosae. PI. 16, fig. 1, 2. 
Ovoid, Legumen ovoideum. Lotus hirsutus, L. Graecus. 
Halfmoonlike, semilunatum. Cynometra. 
Sabreshape, acinac if or me. Bent like a sabre. Phaseolus 
lunatus, Dolichus ensiformis. 
Oblong, oblongum. Ulex Europaeus, Trifolium repens. 
Cylindrical, cylindricum. Cassia Fistula. 
Nearly cjdindrical, cylindraceus . Lotus corniculatus. 
Linear, linear e. Lathy rus gramineus, Indigofera. 
Compressed, compressum. Pisum sativum, Lathyrus 
aphyllus. 
Inflated, inflatum. Membranaceous, dilated, filled with, 
air like a bladder. Colutea. 
Swollen, turgidum . Swelled out, but not membranaceous, 
Genista Anglica, Ononis. 
Bowed, arcuatum . Ornithopus. 
Bent, curvatum , recurvaium. Astragalus glycyphyllus, 
Medicago falcata. 
Spiral, spirale. Medicago sativa, Scorpiurus vermicu- 
lata. 
Strombus-like, cochleatum , strombulforme. Bent in a 
long spiral like the shell so called, Medicago strombulifera. 
M. polymorpha. 
Four-sided, tetragonum. Doliclios tetragonolobus. 
Four-winged, tetrapierum. Lotus siliquosus. 
Top-winged, epipterum. Securidaca volubilis. 
Reverse-crenated, obcrenatum. Bisserula pelecinus. 
Jointed, articulatum. Formed of pieces, united endways 
to one another, each containing a single cell. Ornithopus, 
Scorpiurus, Hedysarum. , 
