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 feræ, is known as a silique when it is distinctly longer than broad (Fig. 224), and a silicle when its breadth nearly equals or exceeds its length. A cruciferous capsule is 2-carpeled, with a thin partition, each locule containing seeds in two rows. The two valves detach from below upwards. Cabbage, turnip, mustard, water-cress, radish, rape, shepherd's purse, sweet alyssum, wall-*flower, honesty, are examples.

Remains of calyx at c.

, contained in the inflated calyx.

of a berry.
 * example

The pericarp may be fleshy and indehiscent. A pulpy pericarp with several or many seeds is a berry (Figs. 239, 240, 241). To the horticulturist a berry is a small, soft, edible fruit, without