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INTRODUCTION TO BOTANY. 
Knobby, nodosum . Swollen at certain distances. Scor- 
piurus. 
Beadlike, monilijorme . Divided by contractions into 
small round pieces placed close together, like the beads of 
a necklace. Ornithopus perpusillus, Hedysarum monili- 
forme. 
Vertebrated, vertebratum. Jointed, the joints parting 
from one another when ripe. Ornithopus scorpioides, He- 
dysarum Canadense. PI. 16, fig. 6. 
Carcerular, carcerulare . Dry, not opening, resembling 
a carcerule. Cassia Fistula, Securidaca volubilis. 
Transversely divided, phragmigerum. Divided into two 
or more one-seeded cells by transverse partitions. Cassia 
Fistula. Pl. 16. fig. 1. 
Drupe-like, drupaceum. Pannexterne succulent and 
fleshy, panninterne woody. Detarium, Geoffraea. 
Induviated, induviatum . Enveloped in a persistent calyx. 
Trifolium repens. 
Channelled, canaliculatum. Having two edges, that form 
a groove along the placentarium-bearing suture. Pisum 
Ochrus. 
IT One-celled, unilocular e. Pisum, Lathy rus, Genista. 
Two-celled, bilocular e. Astragalus. 
Many-celled, multiloculare . Cassia Fistula. Pl. 16, 
%•!. 
% Opening, dchiscens. Opening when ripe. Genista. 
Keeping closed, indehiscens. Cassia Fistula, Securidaca 
volubilis. Considered as legumes by analogy. PL 16, fig. I. 
One-seeded, monospermum. Medicago lupulina, Secu- 
ridaca volubilis, Pterocarpus. 
Two-seeded, dispermum . Trifolium dragiferum. Vicia 
hirsuta, Arachis hypogaea. 
Few-seeded, oligospermum . Vicia vulgaris. 
Many-seeded, polyspermum . Lathyrus, Ornithopus per- 
pusillus, Genista Hispanica. 
Lomentum. 
A legumen divided into two or more one-seeded cells by 
transverse joints. Hippocrepis. Pl. 16, fig. 6. 
Pod. 
Siliqua. Fruit dry , two-valved , bearing the seeds on the 
two sides of a placentarium dilated into a longitudinal par- 
tition. Cruciferae. Pl. 16, fig. 8, 9 arid 11. 
