CLASSIFICATION OF FRUITS. 
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Order 5th. Cenobinnair, (from koinobion a community) com- 
pound fruits without valves or sutures proceeding from 
germs without any styles ; this order contains but one genus, 
one. of these divisions cut vertically ; it contains one seed. 
Order 6th. Drupaces, simple, succulent fruits, containing a 
nut. This order has but one genus, 
Drupe, which varies in form ; the apricot is round and the 
plum elliptical. The amygdalis persica, or peach (Fig. 38.) a 
Fig. 38 . 
is a succulent drupe, of a roundish form, and furrowed on the 
side ; the nut is an ellipsoid, long, one celled and one seeded ; 
b represents the peach deprived of one half of its pulpy exte- 
rior* and exposing the nut ; c represents the nut divested 
of one of its valves and showing the seed (a). 
Order 7th. Baccati, (from bacca a berry) simple, succulent 
fruits, containing many separate seeds. The genera in this 
order are the following : 
Pyriclion , (from perideo to lie around ;) this genus has 
its fruit crowned with the adhering calyx. The pericarp 
is fleshy and has many cells, each of which contains one 
or more seeds ; the embryo has two cotyledons. This ge- 
nus contains the apple and pear. The Apple (Fig. 39) 
Order Cenobinnair — Order Drupaces — Order Baccati — Genera of the 
order Baccati. 
Cenobion, which includes 
fruit of the labiate plants and 
some others. This cut (Fig. 
37.) represents the pericarp of 
the genus Gomphia ; it is com- 
posed of five companions (a) as 
Mirbel calls each of the one 
celled divisions which stand 
around an ovoid germ, desti- 
tute of any style ; b represents 
* Panixtern. 
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