. The botanical class-book, and flora of Pennsylvania, designed for seminaries of learning and private classes. d Primrose; and occasionally by mere points or pores, as in thePoppy. 229. An irregular dehiscence, called circumscissile, occursin such fruits where the pericarp divides transversely, so thatthe upper part falls off like a lid, as in the Verbena, Plantain,and Purslane. 230. The pericarp is of various forms, which have been PERICARP. v 73 studied by Botanists with great attention, and minutelyclassified. The principal varieties are the following : 1. Capsule (Casket, Figs. 115, 116,
. The botanical class-book, and flora of Pennsylvania, designed for seminaries of learning and private classes. d Primrose; and occasionally by mere points or pores, as in thePoppy. 229. An irregular dehiscence, called circumscissile, occursin such fruits where the pericarp divides transversely, so thatthe upper part falls off like a lid, as in the Verbena, Plantain,and Purslane. 230. The pericarp is of various forms, which have been PERICARP. v 73 studied by Botanists with great attention, and minutelyclassified. The principal varieties are the following : 1. Capsule (Casket, Figs. 115, 116, 117,) is a generalterm for all dry and dehiscent fruits resulting from a com-pound ovary, opening at the sides, or top, by valves, as inthe Hypericum, or bursting irregularly, as in Lobelia, orshedding the seeds through chinks or pores, as in the Poppy. It may be 1-celled, as in the Hippuris (Fig. 115) ; 2-celled,as in the Tobacco (Fig. 116) \ 4-celled, as in thePolomoniumand Phlox; 3-eelled, as in the Epilobium; 5-celled, as inthe Flax; and 6-celled, as in the Wild Ginger, (AsarumOanadense), 115. 116.
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