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INTRODUCTION TO BOTANY. ISl
1[ Opening inwardly, ifiius dehiscenfes. Aconitum,
Trollius Europ£eus, Poeonia. PI. 17, fig. 18.
- Opening outwardly, exius dehiscentes. Magnolia.
Not opening, indehiscentes. Ranunculus, Liriodendrura.
Hemigyrus.
Fruit ivoody, opening on one side, one or two-celled, each of
which are one or two-seeded. Proteacese.
Cod.
Legumen. Fruit irregular, -memhranaceous, two-valued,
rarely three or four-valued, with a pistillary cord divided into
two branches running parallelly along the upper suture, so
that the seeds are attached along this suture, alternately to
one and the other value. Leguminosse. PL 16, fig. 1, 2.
Ovoid, Legumen ouoideum. Lotus hirsutus, L. Gi'aecus.
Halfmoonlike, semilunatum. Cynometra.
Sabreshape, acinaciforme. Bent like a sabre. Phaseolus
lunatus, Dolichus ensiformis.
Oblong, oblongian. Ulex Europseus, Trifolium repens.
Cylindrical, cyUndricum. Cassia Fistula. '
Nearly cj'lindrical, cylindraceus. Lotus corniculatus.
Linear, lineare. Lathyrus gramineus, Indigofera.
Compressed, compressum. Pisum sativum, Lathyrus
apliyllus.
Inflated, inflatum. Membranaceous, dilated, filled with
air like a bladder. Colutea.
Swollen, iurgiditm. Swelled out, but not membranaceous.
Genista Anglica, Ononis.
Bowed, arcuatum. Ornithopus.
Bent, curvatum, recurvatum. Astragalus glycyphyllus,
Medicago falcata.
Spiral, spirale. Medicago sativa, Scorpiurus vermicu-
lata.
Strombus-like, cochleatum, stromlndiforme. Bent in a
long spiral like the shell so called, Medicago strombulifera.
M. polymorpha.
Four- sided, tetragonum. Dolichos tetragonolobus.
Four-winged, tetrapterum. Lotus siliquosus.
Top-winged, epipterum. Securidaca volubilis. ^
Reverse-crenated, ohcrenatum. Bisserula pelecinus.
Jointed, articulatum. Formed of pieces, united endways
to one another, each containing a single cell.
Scorpiurus, Hedysarum.
Ornithopus,