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ELEMENTS OF STRUCTURAL BOTANY. 



style, and numerous long stigmas. (Fig. 33.) If you 

 take the trouble to count the carpels and the stigmas, 

 you will find the numbers to correspond. As the seeds 

 ripen the carpels separate from each other. (Fig. 34.) 



MAI.L0W. 



CHAPTER V. 



EXAMINATION OF COMMON PLANTS WITH PERIGYNOUS ST.iMENS 



GARDEN PEA. GREAT WILLOW-HERB, SWEET-BRIER, 



CRAB -APPLE. 



35. Garden Pea. In the flower of this plant, the 

 calyx is constructed on the same plan as in the Mallow. 

 There are five sepals, coherent below, and spreading out 

 into distinct teeth above 'Fig. 35). The calyx is there- 

 fore gamosepalous. 



Examine next the form of the corolla (Fig. 36). 

 One difference between this corolla and those of tlio 

 previous plants will strike you at once. In the flowers 



