Partition

Dis sep i mentum. In_ botany, a wall separating a pericarp internally into cells. This is either parallel; that is, approaching in breadth and its transverse diameter to the vaives: as in lunaria and drab a. Or, contrary; that is, narrower than the valves: or, as it is expre ed more fully in Delin. Pl.—narrower, when the valves by being squeezed or contracted become concave, An gust i us ubi valvulz coarctate evadunt concave. This is exemplified in biscutella and thlasp1. Linnéus borrowed these terms from Tournefort; and says that they are to be un-_. derstood cum grano sal is. We should*have conceived a parallel partition in a silique or pod to have been in the direction of the valves; a contrary or transverse one, at right angles with the valves,