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five inches long ; fertile flowers six to eight on a terminal 

 shoot, surrounded by bracts covered with sticky hairs ; two 

 bright red, spreading stigmas half an inch long. 



FIG. 32. BUTTERNUT. 



a, pistillate jflowers,- b, twig with leaf and fruit; c, staminate flowers. 

 All reduced. 



Find out from observations whether the staminate or the 

 pistillate flowers mature first. 



