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THE CROWFOOT FAMILY 



growth of buds fitted to live over the \vint(n- we may safel>' 

 conclude that we have a perennial plant. If, on the con- 



FiG. 285, II. — Mouse-tail. Pistil, entire. Same, cut vertically. Staminode. 



(Baillon.) 



Fio. 286. — Feiiiiel-flowers (Nigella sativa and *V. damasccna, Crowfoot 

 Family, Ranunculaceee) . A, flowering top of N. sativa. B, flower, cut 

 vertically. C, stamen. Z>, staminode. E, fruit. F, pistil. G, seed, 

 entire, and cut vertically. H , floral diagram. J, fruit of .V. damascena, 

 cut across. (LeMaout and Dccaisne.) — Annuals with bluish or white 

 flowers and dry fruit. Natives of the Old World. 



trary, a full grown herb lacks all such signs of a previous 

 year's growth or of provision for the future, it is clearly an 



