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DICOTYLEDONES. 



loculus (Fig. 504 D). The large flowers are situated in few- 

 flowered umbels or corymbs. P. comnntnis (Pear ; free styles, Fig. 507 ; 

 it has the well-kuown pear-shaped fruit ; the core is reduced to several groups of 



FIG. 506. Cydonia vulgaris. Longitudinal section of fruit. 



sclerenchymatous cells embedded in the pulp, the leaf-stalk is as long as the 

 blade). Cydtmia (Quince) has a hairy fruit with many seeds in 2 

 rows in each loculus of the endocarp (Figs. 504 (7, F ; 506); the 

 testa of these seeds is mucilaginous. C. vulgaris, large, terminal 

 flowers on lateral branches, 

 and large leaf-like, per- 

 sistent sepals. 



2. Mains and Amelan- 

 chier(Aroiiiu'); carpels free 

 on the ventral edge; styles 

 united. Mains communis 

 (Apple) the fruit is " um- 

 bilicate " at the base ; no 

 sclerenchymatous cells in 

 the pulp; styles united at FIG. 507. Longitudinal section of Pear flower. 



