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Such flowers do not set fruit, but soon fall off. In most cases 



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 it is very easy to assign a bud to the right class after the distinc- 

 tion has once been noticed. 



Fig. 1. Pomegranate buds and flower, bisexual fruit-producing form (natural 



size). 



Buds of the longer, more cylindrical form, shown in figure 1, 

 produce perfect flowers, with well-developed, functional ovaries. 



Fig. 2. Pomegranate buds and flower, staminate form, not producing fruit 

 (natural size). 



In such flowers the style is long and the stigma is carried out be- 

 yond the mass of stamens. This makes it possible for the stigma 

 to be exposed as soon as the calyx opens, and while the stamens 



