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CHAPTER II. 



tempted fleet-footed Atalanta to linger in her race, 

 belonged to the Aurantiacere. Apples they must have 

 been, or Quinces, or perhaps Pomegranates, gilded by 

 the glow of the poet's imagination. 



I will not enlarge upon the botanical peculiarities 

 of the Orange, but I will just call attention to the 

 extraordinary fact that more than one embryo is often 





Fig. 6. SWEET ORANGE (3). BITTER ORANGE (4). LEMON (5). 



produced in a single seed (polyembryony). This 

 occurs also in Mistletoe and in Conifers. Notice also 

 the blade of the leaf articulated to the stalk, and this 

 again to the stem, as in Berberis, a sign that the leaf 

 is truly compound : the immersed glands in the 

 exocarp (rind), which are analogous to those in the 

 leaf of Hypericum: also inside the rind the loose 

 white stellate tissue, which resembles in structure the 

 pith of a rush. The primordial leaves of the Orange 



