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but not the styles and stigmas (see the figure). 

 The fruit is a capsule opening by five teeth, and 

 has numerous dark-coloured seeds. 



As the seeds are shed simultaneously with the 

 corn, they are apt to communicate injurious pro- 



Fig. 15. Agrostemma Githago ; Corn-cockle. 



perties to the flour. They have no scent, but are 

 bitter to the taste. 



As the seed-skin is black, and when ground up 

 the fragments remain, the presence of the seeds 

 can be thereby detected. Moreover the starch 

 grains are exceedingly small as compared with 



