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ALTERATION OF POSITION. 



rating tlie style and allowing it to assume a vertical 

 direction. 



M. Carriere^ has described an instance wherein two 

 apples were joined together, a larger and a smaller one ; 

 the former was directed away from the centre of the 



Fig. 113. Flower of Cutphea mimata enlarged, showing protrusion 

 and hypertrophy of an erect placenta, aftei' Morren. 



FlO. 114. Placenta from the flower shown at fig. 113; the ovary is 

 membranous and torn, the placenta, erect and ovuliferous, after Morren. 



tree as usual, while the smaller one was pointed in 

 exactly the opposite direction. The larger fruit had the 



Rev. Hortic' 1868, p. 110. 



