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CLASSIFICATION OF FRUITS. 
CLASS I. GYMNOCARPS, 
Or fruits not concealed. 
Order 1st. Carcerulares, (from career a prison) simple 
fruits which never open spontaneously. 
This order consists of several genera, as the fruits of 
syngenesious plants , of the grasses , dj-c. Here is a represen- 
tation {Fig. 30) of a fruit of this order belonging to the 
germ Galinsogo, of the family syngenesia ; the pericarp (a) 
is turbinate (shaped like a top ;) its surface is pubescent and 
furrowed ; it is indehiscent (not opening when ripe) and 
monospermous (having one seed ;) the egret is sessile and 
plumose. The embryo is dy- 
cotyledonous, and fleshy. At 
(b) is the same pericarp cut 
longitudinally, and exposing 
an inner half of one of the 
cotyledons. 
rise. 30. 
Order 2nd. Capsulares, simple fruits, having capsules which 
open when in a mature state. 
Fig. 31. 
You see here {Fig. 31) a capsular fruit, 
it is theseedofthe martagon lily {Lilium 
martagon.') a represents the capsule 
open, as it appears in a mature state ; b 
the same, cut tranversely, showing the 
seeds. 
Gymnocarps — Angiocarps — Order Carcerulares — Order Capsulares— 
Genera in the order capsulares — 
