e 
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nearly equal, rounded, entire, spreading segments, rather copi- 
ously marked with white * spots, bearing a black dot in the 
centre (whence the specific name). Stamens a little longer 
than the tube. Azthers white, slightly cohering in two pairs : 
the rudiment of a fifth stamen is present. Sty/e shorter than 
the stamens, thick, downy, with five nearly equal g/ands at the 
base, united into a ring. Stigma somewhat oblique, bifid. 
* The white of these spots, at a more advanced season, was almost obsolete. 
Fig 1. Pistil. 2. Corolla, laid open :—magnified. 
