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174 INTRODUCTION TO BOTANY.
Ovoid, avoidea. Ephedra.
^ Upright, erecta. The orifice turned towards the point
opposite to the base of its support. Taxus, Ephedra.
Reversed, resupinata. Fixed so that the orifice faces the
base of its support. Podocarpus.
For the characters of the pericarp, reference may be
made to akenium.
Nucule.
Nucula, Nux. Fruit one-celled, one-seeded, not opening
when ripe, with a long covering, the pericarp only slightly,
or not distinct from the seed ; frequently sunk in an iiivoluerum.
Corylus sylvestris, Corylus tubulosa. PI. 14-, fig. 4*.
Xylodium.
Fruit like a nucule, hut without a cupule, and home upon a
fleshy support. Anacardium. PL 14, fig. 7.
Carcerulus.
Bacca sicca, Capsula indehiscens. Fruit not opening, dry,
many-celled, many-seeded. Tiha. PI. 14, fig. 8 and 9.
Amphisarca.
Capsula indehiscens. Fr7dt not opening, dry, many-celled,
woody on the outside, pulpy internally. Adansonia. PI. 14,
fig. 13.
GYNOBASIC FRUITS.
Fructus gynobasici, Cenobionares, Cenobia. Fruits simple,
hut composed of four or more cells, eremi, so far apart that
they appear like so many separate fruits ; hut are all home
upon a gynohasis, more or less dilated and heing the hase of a
single style. PI. 14, fig. 16 to 20.
Two-celled, Cenohium hieremum. Cerinthe.
Four-celled, quadri-eremum. Labiatae, Boraginese.
Five-eremed, quinque-eremum.
fig. 16.
Six-eremed, sex-eremum, &c.
Gomphia nitida. Pi. 14,
Eremes.
Globular, Eremi glohulosi. Collinsonia Canadensis,
Salvia officinalis.
Ellipsoidal, ellipsoidei. Salvia Hispanica, S, bicolor.