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Fig. 17. The nucules of the same, as seen on either side, 
small, boney, irregularly angular. 
Fig. 18. Juniperus Virginiana. Cupressidece. Arcesthide 
magnified, ovoid, berrylike, composed of 1-seeded glandes, 
soldered along with succulent bractese : cupules woody, 
close. 
Fig. 19. A single glans of the same, magnified, with 
small vesicles at the base filled with turpentine. 
Fig. 20. A glans of the same cut longitudinally, and 
magnified. 
a. Cupule. 
b. Pericarpium membranaceous, crowned by the limb of 
the calyx. 
c. Limb of the calyx. 
d. Remains of the stigma. 
e . Perisperm. 
f. Embryo axile, two-cotyledon. 
Fig. 21. , Anona squamosa. Anonae. Asimine cut trans- 
versely, barked, fleshy, composed of several berries; bark 
thick, spongy, corklike, covered all over with ovate, oblong, 
nipplelike, ascending tubercles; flesh pulpy, divided into 
as many cells as there are tubercles in the bark, so that the 
fresh and moist fruit may be separated into as many berry- 
like lobes. 
Fig. 22. Perisperm of the same split lengthways, embryo 
very small, near the hile. 
Fig. 23. Seed of the same, elliptic, slightly angular, 
smooth. 
