. The elements of materia medica and therapeutics (Volume 2) . or is it to be found in thebody of the fruit itself, or in the seeds contained within it; itwas only in the juice around the seeds, therefore, that it could be looked for, anil here it wasfound. The precise situation of it will be readily comprehended by inspecting a transverse sectionof the elaterium pepo (see fig. 214, c.) We observe that the external portion of the pericarp(namely, the epicarp) is furnished with rigid hairs; within the epicarp is a whitish sarcocarp,forming what Dr. Clutterbuck terms the body of the fruit. The c
. The elements of materia medica and therapeutics (Volume 2) . or is it to be found in thebody of the fruit itself, or in the seeds contained within it; itwas only in the juice around the seeds, therefore, that it could be looked for, anil here it wasfound. The precise situation of it will be readily comprehended by inspecting a transverse sectionof the elaterium pepo (see fig. 214, c.) We observe that the external portion of the pericarp(namely, the epicarp) is furnished with rigid hairs; within the epicarp is a whitish sarcocarp,forming what Dr. Clutterbuck terms the body of the fruit. The centre of the fruit is dividedinto three cells, by projections of the three parietal placentae to which the seeds are these projections, and surrounding the seeds, is the pulp, the placentary matter, or thejuice around the seeds (Clutterbuck). It is paler than the sircocarp, and is composed of a verylax tissue, which, as the fruit maturates, takes on, says Aug. St. Ililaire, a gelatinous consistence,becomes disorganized, and melts into Momordica Elaterium. <s. Pepo expelling its seeds. b. Transverse section of the pepo. Fig. 215.
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