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found in over three hundred abnormal fruits examined into 
these classes. It is quite impossible to determine whether 
a given carpel-like body was produced from a bud in the 
axil of a carpel or indeed from an adventitious bud on any 
portion of the carpel, or from a primordium which nor- 
mally would have developed into an ovule. It is no easier 
to ascertain whether the accessory organ was produced 
from the apex of the torus or from a neighboring ovule 
primordium. The nature of the Capsicum fruit precludes 
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the determination of some points which may be studied in 
other forms. , 
The margins of the included carpel-like bodies were in 
all cases completely closed, and not open as has been de- 
scribed in some cases of carpels produced by prolification. 
The smaller ones showed no cavity whatever but were 
solid throughout. In form they varied from an irregu- 
larly contorted body through an almost perfectly farmed 
sterile fruit, comparable in shape with the one in which it 
