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with one or more of the parts, the Dicotyl number (five) 

 appears (Figs. 243, 245), but with no special constancy. 



In certain genera of the buttercup family (Ranuncula- 

 cea>) zygomorphy appears, as in the larkspur (Delphinium) 

 with its spurred petals and sepals (Figs. 244, 245), and the 

 monkshood (Aconitum) with its hooded sepal ; and in the 



Fig. 246. The common cabbage {Brassica), a member of the mustard family: A, 

 flower cluster, showing buds at tip. open flowers below with four spreading petals, 

 and forming pods below; B, mature pod, with the persistent style; C, pod opening 

 by two valves, and showing seeds attached to the false partition. — After Warming. 



water-lily family (NymplicBacece) and poppy family (Papa- 

 veracem) syncarpy appears. In this alliance, also, belong 

 the sweet-scented shrubs (Calycanthus), with their perigy- 

 nous flowers containing numerous parts (Fig. 206). 



