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Y. A Drupe * (Drupa), a pulpy body ? without valves, enclosing a nut 
or stone, with a kernel. 
YI. A JVutf (Nux), a hard ligneous shell, without a pulpy covering. 
VII. A Pome% (Pomum), a species of seed-vessel, pulpy, not enclosing 
a stone, in the midst of which is found a membranaceous substance, forming 
cells, or cavities, for containing the seeds. 
VIII. A Berry § (Bacca), a pulpy seed-vessel, enclosing numerous seeds, 
dispersed throughout the pulp. 
IX. A Strobile || (Strqbilxjs), a species of seed-vessel formed of woody 
scales, which embrace the seeds within their bosom. No force can draw 
these asunder; yet, immersed in warm water, or placed near the fire, they 
open most freely of themselves, exhibiting the contained seeds. 
We have now enumerated the several distinct forms of Pericarps, under 
which all others must arrange themselves. However diversified the appear¬ 
ances of each may be, yet must they all fall under one of these nine general 
heads. The utility of such distinctions we shall see hereafter. 
^ From dpuf, a tree, and w to concoct, tins species of pericarp ripening on the tree before it 
falls: the cherry, plum, and olive, are examples of this. Miller translates in consequence, Drupa, a 
Plum ; but, according to Linnaeus, sometimes this pericarp is dry as the almond, which perhaps would 
better follow the ensign of the nut, which I have ventured to consider as a seed having a pericarp. Yide 
note ~f\ 
f Nux, a nut, is defined by Linnaeus to be a seed covered with a shell: this shell I have considered 
as a distinct species of pericarp, containing the nucleus, or seed, and with what propriety I leave to 
the candid reader. 
+ ■^' rom Fomum, an apple, as it includes all the moist fruits which have the seeds lodged in a core. 
It cannot, however, be translated an Apple, as Miller has clone, since it comprehends also the gourd, 
cucumoer, &c. and the English term would be taken in too limited a sense. 
§ It is distinguished from the former, the pome, chiefly by having no apparent partitions for the 
seeds. 
|| This term, derived from , e oUo h an artichoke, from the resemblance which this kind of seed- 
vessel has to its imbricated leaves, includes not only the cone of former writers, but also some other 
pericarps, which recede considerably in structure from that sort of pericarp, as the magnolia. To 
translate, as Millar has done, Strobilus a Cone is imnroner as o-ivW a / S 
Maktyn a lb impioper, as giving a false general conception. 
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