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BOTANY. 



tiful flowers, but from eighteen to twenty or more species from 

 Europe and Asia are commonly to be found in gardens and conser- 

 vatories. (Fig. 476.) 



Tribe Potentillece. Mostly herbs, with usually compound 



FIGS. 473- 5. ILLUSTRATIONS or TRIBE POME.E. 



FIG. 474. FIG. 475. 



Fig. 473. Flower cluster of Pliiis communis. 



Fig. 474. Section of Quince flower ( Pii*us Cydonia) 



Fig. 475. Section of Quince fruit. 



leaves ; carpels free, one to many, mostly on a convex fleshy receptacle ; 

 fruits dry (achenia). 

 Fragaria elatior, of Europe, F. vesca, of Europe and Eastern United 



