explanation of the plates. 
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PLATE THE SIXTEENTH. 
Fruits . 
Fig. 1 . Cassia Fistula. L'eguminosce. Tip of the legume, 
partly opened; legume phragmated, many-celled; cells 
one-seeded ; placentarium unilateral ; umbilical cord thread- 
like; seeds ovoid, compressed. 
Fig. 2. Genista candicans. Leguminosce, Cod, or le- 
gume, opened ; legume deeply scrobiculate, nearly celled ; 
umbilical cords short, from the convex suture, seeds af- 
fixed alternately to each valve. 
Fig. 3. Seed of the same magnified; File or umbilicus 
prominent. 
Fig . 4. The same, with the hile facing the spectator, bile 
crescentlike, surrounded by a glandular prominent edge. 
Fig. 5. The kernel of the same magnified ; seed peri- 
spermed; embryo bent, cotyledons ovate; radicle bent, 
centrifugal. 
Fig. 6. Scorpiurus sulcata. Leguminosce. Legume 
jointed, nodose, furrowed, spiral. 
Fig. 7. Astragalus uliginosus. Leguminosce. Legume 
cut transversely, two-celled; partition longitudinal, valvean, 
marginal. 
Fig. 8. Cardamine Gneca. Crucifer ce. Siliqua, or pod, 
when dehiscent. Valves fiat, ribless, flown back and rolled 
up spirally; partition very narrow, thin; seeds four in each 
cell ; umbilical cord fixed alternately to each edge of the 
partition. 
Fig. 9. Sinapis alba. Crucifer ce. Siliqua hispid, two- 
celled, two-valved; valves marked with three hispid ribs 
lengthways; upper joint valveless, sometimes containing 
one imperfect seed, or partition produced far beyond the 
valves into a swordshape beak. 
Fig. 10. Embryo of the same, magnified : cotyledons 
rounded, nearly leaflike, the outer involving the interior ; 
radicle lying in the furrow of the folding, centrifugal. 
Fig. 11 . Raphanistrum vulgare. Crucifer ce. Part of 
the siliqua; valveless, many-celled, jointed, becoming neck- 
laceshape; cells boney, separate, in a longitudinal series, 
perforated at eaclrend for the passage of the two umbilical 
cords, which enter all of them, each cord bearing a seed 
in the alternate cells; seeds one in a cell. 
Fig. 12. Boney cell of the same cut transversely. 
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