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was produced, to linear structures from a few millimeters 
to two esutimeters or more in length, terminated by a 
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minvte style. 
Histologically the similarity of the carpel-like bodies to 
the wall of the fruit is very great. Both show the exceed- 
ingly heavy epidermis and the large-celled parenchymatous 
ground tissue. The bodies show one or more vascular 
bundles similar to those of the wall of the fruit. When 
ae: fresh sections are examined, numerous chromoplasts are 
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seen in both but they are generally more abundant in the “3 
wall of the fruit. : | ‘ 
Since the appearance of the teratological papers of a 
de Vries, one of the chief objects of teratological studies B 
is the determination of the frequency of occurrence of 
the various anomalies. The fruits examined by the a 
me | writer belong to twenty named varieties but here only | 
ae sixteen which have been described by Irish in his Revision 
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