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EXPLANATION OJ THE PLATES. 
PLATE THE FOURTEENTH. 
Fruits. 
Fig. 1. Quercus longseva. Corylidece. Glands cut > 
lengthways, coriaceous, one-celled, one-seeded ; seed pend- 
ent, without a perisperm ; radicle adverse ; cotyledons large, 
fleshy. 
Fig. 2. The cupule of the same, with two abortive 
glands. 
Fig. 3. Carpinus ulmoides. Corylidece. Nucule, or 
calybion, boney, ovate, angular, with threadlike, longitu- 
dinal ribs. 
Fig. 4. Corylus tubulosa. Corylidece. Cupule tubular, 
cylindrical, jagged, toothed. 
Fig. 5 . Corylus sylvestris. Corylidece . Nucule, or ca- 
lybion, parted lengthways to show the seed; umbilical cord 
rising from the base and ascending ; seed pendent. 
Fig. 6. Cotyledon of the same, with the place in which 
the embryo is seated. 
Fig. 7. Anacardium officinale. Terelintacece. Xylo- 
dium, or carcerule, seated upon a fleshy receptacle. 
Fig. 8. Tilia parvifolia. Tiliacece. Carcerule opened; 
cells two-seeded. 
Fig. 9. The carcerule of the same cut transversely, cells 
five. 
Fig. 10. Asarum Europseum. Aristolochioe. Carcerule 
cut transversely ; cells six ; partitions incomplete. 
Fig. 11 . Carcerule of the same opened, cells four-seeded, 
seeds ascending. 
Fig. 12. Embryo of tilia parvifolia; cotyledons leaflike, 
three-lobed, toothed, incumbent. 
Fig. 13 . Adansonia Baobab. Malvacece . Amphisarca 
cut transversely, cells ten. 
Fig. 14. A portion of the spongy, farinaceous pulp taken 
out of the cells of the same, interwoven with thready 
fibres. 
Fig. 15 . The point of the pulp dissected to show the 
seeds, of the natural size. 
Fig. 16 . Gomphia nitida. Ochnacece. Sarcobasis five- 
eremed ; gynophore ovoid ; eremes one-celled, one-seeded ; 
seed straight, coated, without a perisperm; embryo straight, 
radicle opposite. 
