[772] Reaum. vi. 251-7. t. xxvi. f. 1.

[773] Latr. Fourmis, 419.

[774] See above, p. [317]—.

[775] Aikin's Dictionary of Chemistry, i. 455. What have probably been taken by Mr. Aikin for "kernels," in the imperforated nuts, are the cocoons of the inhabitants of these galls in the pupa state, which often extremely resemble the seeds of a capsule, as Reaumur (iii. 429.) has remarked.

[776] Reaum. iii. 417, &c.

[777] Introd. to Botany, 349.

[778] Reaum. iii. 474.

[779] Ibid. 479.

[780] Ibid. 501.

[781] Ibid. 479.