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MIRBEL’S CLASSIFICATION OF FRUITS. 
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Fig. 99. 
Order 4th. Etairionnair, (from etairoi , associates,) contains com¬ 
pound fruits, proceeding from ovaries, bearing the styles; this order 
contains two genera. 
Double Follicle , as in the milk-weed, ( ascle 
pias ,) having two follicles, each formed of one 
valve, folded lengthwise, and adhering at its 
edges. 
Et a iron *, h agin g many seeds ranged round 
the imaginary axis of the flower, as the ranun¬ 
culus and anemone. 
Here is the fruit, (Fig. 99.) of the Aconitum , 
(monk’s-hood,) which belongs to this order; it 
is composed of three pods united in one com¬ 
pound fruit; a, shows one of the valves in a 
dehiscent state; 5, represents a seed cut longi¬ 
tudinally. 
The Clematis is a caudate et air on, the Fceonia 
is divergent and dehiscent. 
Order 5th. Cenobionnair, (from koinobion , a community,) com¬ 
pound fruits without valves or sutures, proceeding from ovaries 
without any adhering styles ; this order contains but one genus. 
Cenobion ,f includes fruit of the labi¬ 
ate plants and some others. Figure 
100, represents the pericarp of the ge¬ 
nus Gomphia ; it is composed of five 
companions , u, as Mirbe'l calls each of 
the one-celled divisions which stand 
around an ovoid germ, destitute of any 
style; 5, represents one of these divis- 
sions cut vertically; it contains one 
Fist. 100 . seed . 
Order 6 th. Drupaces, simple, succu¬ 
lent fruits, containing a nut. This order has but one genus. 
Drupe , this pericarp is composed of a woody or bony panintern,J 
called the nut, and of a panextern.J sometimes dry and membra¬ 
nous, at others fleshy or pulpy; this character is peculiar to this‘fruit. 
It may be regular or irregular, monocephalous or polycephalous, 
adhering to the calyx or free. The cherry has a pulpy panextern, 
the peach fleshy, the walnut woody. The amygdalis persica , Fig. 
101, a, is a succulent drupe, of a roundish fijrm, and furrowed on the 
side ; the nut of this drupe is an ellipsoid, one-celled and one-seeded; 
* The syncarp of Richard. 
t Called by De Candolle, Sarcobase and Microbase. 
t The panextern includes what is sometimes called epicarp and sarcocarp, the pan- 
intern is the same as th e endocarp.___ 
Order Etairionnair—Double Follicle—Etairon—Describe the fruit of the Aconitum— 
Order Cenobionnair—Cenobion—Order Drupaces—Drupe. 
