70 PLANT BEEEDTNG. 



The flax ,ii:rown for fiber in tlie Britisli Islands and on the Avestern 



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Fig. 21. —Flowers of flax. 1, branch, with flowers and fruit; ;:', flower half open; a, petal: /(.sepal; 

 5, diaarrammatic section of flower; G, anther, with filament; 7. transvei-se section of anther; 8, 

 9,10, pistils, before, at time of, and just after pollination; ii, ripe fruit: ;i. diagrammatic trans- 

 verse section of fruit; iJ, seed; J4, 3.5, longitudinal and transverse sections of seed; i6, anther; 

 n, pollen grains. 



portion of the European continent is nearly all of Russian origin. 



