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seeds being sweetish, bland and mildly pungent; and the dissepi- 

 ments are extremely pungent. 



INNER STRUCTURE. See Fig. 267. 



Powder. Yellowish-brown or brownish-red; taste very pun- 

 gent and characteristic ; stone cells of two kinds, either nearly isodia- 

 metric, uniformly thickened and with middle lamella slightly ligni- 



FIG. 267. Garden pepper (Capsicum annuum) : A, transverse section of pericarp 

 showing epidermis (ep}; hypodermis (ko), secretion cells having thick, porous 

 suberized walls and contain oil (o) and resin; parenchyma (pa) ; fibro vascular 

 bundle (g) ; inner epidermis (i, ep) composed of thick, lignified, porous cells. 

 B, diagram of fertilized ovule showing hilum (N), micropyle (m), integu- 

 ment (J), fibro vascular bundle (gf), embryo-sac (Es) egg-cell (e), antipoda. 

 cells (a) . C, longitudinal and transverse sections of a stone cell from the 

 epidermis of the seed-coat showing the characteristic sinuous-thickened, 

 lignified inner and side walls. A, after Hanausek; B, C, after Meyer. 



fied, or somewhat elongated on surface view, convolutely thickened 

 on the inner and side walls and strongly lignified ; starch grains from 

 unripe fruits somewhat spheroidal, from 0.003 to 0.007 mm. in 

 diameter, single or compound; glandular hairs of calyx having 1- to 



