. The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania, or, Its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, populary described . 126 OFF-HAND SKETCHES. Fig. 5 exhibits a variety of fruit, of the family of Chara, andcomprised in the same class as the foregoing. The fruit is oval, andconsists of five valves, twisted spirally, with a small opening at eachextremity. The figure on the left, marked 1, exhibits the nut within. FIG. 5.— the pericarp; 2 shows the pericarp; and 3 a portion of the spiralvalve, magnified, while 4 and 5 are the natural size of 1 and 2, mag-nified in the engrav
. The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania, or, Its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, populary described . 126 OFF-HAND SKETCHES. Fig. 5 exhibits a variety of fruit, of the family of Chara, andcomprised in the same class as the foregoing. The fruit is oval, andconsists of five valves, twisted spirally, with a small opening at eachextremity. The figure on the left, marked 1, exhibits the nut within. FIG. 5.— the pericarp; 2 shows the pericarp; and 3 a portion of the spiralvalve, magnified, while 4 and 5 are the natural size of 1 and 2, mag-nified in the engraving. Of the family of the cluh-moss or hjcopodia-cecB, there are numerous specimens, the most common of which arethe lycopadites, lepidodendron, lepidostrobus, and stigmaria, a speci-men of which we append—fig. 6. The stem of the Stigmaria was
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