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If Euonymus, the Spindle Tree, had been selected, 

 the results would be the same, but four carpels are con- 

 cerned (Fig. 124) ; and the same in the Holly (Fig. 109). 

 In the Lilies, Hyacinth, Ruscus, &c., there are three 



Fig. 26. -E, F, and G, ovaries of Willows, E, in vertical section, showing 

 the ovules ; H, similar section of ovary of Poplar. J, seed. P S, floral 

 diagrams of pistillate flowers, in each case the ovary is seen composed of 

 two carpels with parietal placentation (E and P). 



carpels thus joined into a three-celled (tricarpellary) 

 ovary with axile placentation ; and in the Heaths, Straw- 

 berry-tree, and others, we have similarly syncarpous 

 ovaries of five carpels. 



Hitherto the syncarpous ovaries selected have been 



