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VARIOUS FOOD-PLANTS 



Fig. 73. — Spinach. Flowering branch. (Baillon.) 



Fig. 74. — Spinach. -1, staminate flower, top view. B, pistilhite flower, 

 side view. C, pistil, with part of ovary wall cut away to show the ovule 

 within. Z>, fruit. E, the same, cut in half vertically showing seed and 

 coiled germ. F, G, other forms of fruit. All the figures more or less 

 magnified. (Volkeiis.) 



Fig. 75 Lcitud [J.ddiui ^alua >uuflo\\(i 1 imiK i otn po'^ita) Plant 

 during early period of growth, showing the compacted rosette of leaves. 

 (Nicholson.) — The i)lant is an animal, smooth throughout, att.nining 

 a height of about 1 in., flowers yellow. 



