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leaclied that section where the corolla is all 

 in one piece. (See Fig. 46.) If you attempt 

 to remove it, it must either come away alto- 

 gether, or it must tear; only you cannot 

 understand why the daisy, the thistle, the 

 ragwort (Fig. 44), and such like plants, find 

 their place here, for truly they seem made 



tacle. Moreover, the plants we are now ex- 

 amining have their corolla and stamens (Figs. 

 46 and 47) fixed, as it were, on the top of the 

 ovary, as in the case of the true roses and 

 the pome tribe, and also the umbellifers in 

 many-petaled calyciflorse ; this being due in 

 all these cases to the calyx growing up as it 



Fio. 48. — Fruit of Common Elder, arranged in a cyme. 



np of pieces enough. We will get to them 

 presently. 



Now these plants in our hand have one 

 bond of connection with those we gathered 

 into Handful II. They belong to what 

 is called the " Calycifloral " section ; in 

 other words, their stamens and corolla are 

 inserted upon the calyx, and not, like the 

 flowers in Handful I., upon the reccp- 



were around, and thus inclosing the ovary ; 

 to speak bolanically, being "adnate" to it. 

 The corolla and stamens, however, are just 

 as much inserted into the calyx in these 

 cases as they are in the strawberry and the 

 bramble (Fig. 29a). Thus, then, we have 

 our present section of plants marked off from 

 all others ; they are distinct from the many- 

 j petaled, and they are no less distinct from 



