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mith stigmatic papilla on the inner surface of its branches, which 
r the most part do not become entirely separated (Fig. 117, 2). 
Here, as in Pieris hieracioides, insect-visitors come in contact with 
the pollen and stigmas more with their sides than with their under 
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1.—Flore ee in second (female) stage, after removal of ory, and pappus (x 7). 
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the style in preceding figure (x 35). a, hairs; 6, stigmatic Pail: ¢, pollen-grains. 
here, as in most Cichoriace, to a less extent than in those Seneci- 
_ onides and Asteroidex in which the out-pressed pollen and after- 
wards the stigmas lie in one plane. In this species, on the other 
| hand, the florets are able at one and the same time to receive 
| pollen from insects upon their stigmas, and to contre: their 
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