THE ANGIOSPERMAE 



1571 





Pjp 14151.— C'vc-/(;wf« neapoUtanum. An example of carpo- 

 tropy. The flower stalks coil up as the fruit ripens and 

 press it against the soil. 



ducing two different forms of fruit. There are many such species, of 

 which the already cited Cardamine chenopodiifolia (p. 1355) may stand 

 as a type. 



Pic js-i2.—Eichhornia speciosa. The flower stalks bend at a pulvinus and plunge 



the ripening fruits below the water. 



