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TABLE XXXVIII, 
Represents the entire plant. 
Fig. 14. The upper portion with the terminating whorl of leaves, 
flowers, and incipient fruit. 
2. The lower portion (separated from Fig. 1, at the mark +) 
with the inferior whorl of leaves. The shaggy marks of 
the graver along this portion of the stem, intended to re- 
present the flocculent investment, which in the plant 
itself covers just thus much of the stalk. 
3. The root and lower portion of the stem, severed from the 
upper (Fig. 2.) at the mark o. 
4. Peduncle supporting the germ, and three stigmas. 
5. A stamen. 
6. A petal. 
7. The ripe berry. 
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