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ORGANOGRAPHY. 



some of the Capparidaceae {fig. 642); in the Passion-flower, in 

 the Pink {fi<j. 587, g\ Dictamnus (fiy. 609), Xanthoxylon {fig. 

 593), &c. This prolongation or stalk of the ovary is by some 

 considered to be formed by the union of the petioles of the 

 cai-pellary leaves of -which that ovary is composed. 



642. 



F!(i. fi41. Monstrous development of 

 the Flower of tlie Rose, showing the 

 thalamus prolonged into a branch 

 which bears true leaves instead of 



carpels F!<j. fi42. Flower of a 



spei^ies of Gynaiulropsis, belonging 

 to the CapparidaceiE. cal. Calyx. 

 cor. Corolla, nt. Stamens, thai. 

 Prolonged thalamus or gynophore, 

 supporting the ovary, ov. 



Section 5. — The Fruit. 



We have already seen that the ovary has in its interior 

 one or more little oval or roundisli bodies, called ovules or rudi- 

 mentary sced.s; their description therefore, in a regular arrange- 

 ment, should. fullow that of the ovary. It is however, far more 

 convenient to exuminc in the first ])lace, the stnicture and 

 general characters of the fruit, as this is composed essentially of 

 the ripened ovary, and its dcscrii)tion comes therefore naturally 

 at the present time, when the details connected with that organ 



