DICOTYLEDONS: MYRTALES. 



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shaped, yellowish petals, and here are also seated the eight 

 stamens. The four carpels are united into a single pistil within 

 the base of the calyx-tube and united with it, so that the calyx- 

 tube seems to be on the end of the pistil. The flowers soon fade 

 and fall away from the pistil, and this grows into an elongated, 



four-angled pod. Since the lower flowers on the stem are the 

 older, we find nearly mature fruit and fresh flowers, with all 

 intermediate grades, on the same plant. 



The plants grow by roadsides and in old fields. They are 

 from loom to a meter or more high (one to five feet). The 



