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In the Hellebores, Galtha (Fig. 3), Peonies, Columbines, 

 Larkspurs, Monkshoods (Fig. 7), &c. we have an aeterio of 

 Follicles : they dehisce by the dorsal suture in Glaucidiam, 

 also in Xanthorrhiza whose follicles are 1-seeded. In 

 Nigella the circle of follicular carpels fuse to a septicidal 

 Capsule with inflated dorsal walls in N. damascena (Fig. 

 38). In Hydrastis and Actaia we have a similar fusion, 



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Fig. 39. Traveller's Joy, Clematis Vitalba (Sch). 



