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place as one incident only, though an essential one, in the complete 

 propagative story. 



Note. Special attention is drawn to the detailed description of various types 

 of floral structure given in Appendix A. The facts there described will 

 illustrate the preceding chapter. They are placed in the Appendix not because 

 they are unimportant, but so that the description of the reproductive process 

 should not be broken by a mass of detailed facts, however apposite those 

 facts may be to the process itself. 



