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introduction to botany. 189
Double Follicle.
Bifolliculus. Follicula. Fruii composed of two long mem-
Iranaceous, univalve pericarpiums, each opening Vy a longi-
tudinal suture. Asclepiadese. PL 17, fig. 12.
Erythrostomum.
Syncarpa, Etaerio. Fruit composed of several small berry"
like utricles, seated upoji a scarcely apparent polyphore.
Rubus. PI. 18, fig. 8.
Baccalaurius.
Fruit analogous to the erythrostome, hut the pericarps are
fewer, and not so close. Drymis.
ASIMINE.
Asimina. Fruits analogous to the erythrostome, hut the
fleshy carpelles are more or less soldered together. Anona,
PI. 18, fig. 21.
Etjerion.
Etaerio, Plopocarpium. Fruit composed of several ca~
mares, united together round a real or ideal axis. Crassu-
laceae, Aconiti, Spireas. PI. 17, fig. 17, 18 and 19.
Sphaerical, Etcerio sphcericus, gloLosus, capitatus. Ranunculus
bulbosus. Magnolia, Liriodendrum.
Nearly ovoid, sulovoideus, Rubus.
Dishlike, discoideus. Alisma major.
Spikelike, spiciformis. Myosurus minimus.
Berrylike, baccatus. Composed of juicy camares which
unite together as they ripen, and form a kind of berry by
their union. Anona, Rubus.
Induviated, induviatus. Enclosed in the persistent calyx.
Rosa.
^ Three-camared, tricamarus. Veratrum album, Aconitum
lycoctonum.
Four-cam ai'ed, tetracamarus. Potamogeton natans.
Five-camared, pentacamarus. Paeonia, Clematis erecta,
Sedum.
Many-camared, polycamarus. Ranunculus, Magnolia,
Lyriodendrum, Rubus.