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perianth which is shorter than the stamens. The stamens 

 vary from one to five; four is the ordinary number. 



nucellus 

 e0^ cf < 



Fig. 107. — Flowers of fig (Ficus carica). A, B and C, mule flowers; D, 

 long-styled pistillate flower; E, staminate flower; F, gall produced from a 

 short-styled gall flower; G, fig wasp escaping from a gall; H, gall flower. {A, 

 B, and C after Eisen; D toG after Kerner; H after Solms-Laubach.) 



Pistillate Flowers {Fig. 107, D). — Pistillate flowers are some- 

 times found in the Common Mission figs; they are the only 

 sort in Smyrna figs; they also occur in the second crop of San 



