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Notes . 
use of the word in most of our text-books in Britain is therefore 
wrong, and, so far as I can discover, the error was first made by 
Henfrey in his Outlines (1847), whence it has been copied into other 
books. 
According to Lecoq and Juillet the term repletum was applied 
by Richard to a pericarp such as that of Orchideae, in which the 
valves fall away leaving a framework of cohering delicate threads. 
I have not been able to find the word in Richard’s works, but 
its use by him, involving the same idea as that conveyed by Brassai’s 
term, would be prior to the paper of Brassai referred to above. 
ISAAC BAYLEY BALFOUR, Oxford. 
