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KLEMEXTS OF STRUCTURAL BOTANY. 



Fig. 85. 



leaf-like bract, and is aiJimiently raised ou a pedicel. 



What seems to be a pedicel, however, will, if cut across, 

 prove to be the ovary, which in this case is 

 inferior. Its situation is similar to the situ- 

 ation of the ovary in Willow-herb, and, as 

 in tliat flower, so in this the calyx-tube ad- 

 heres to the whole surface of the ovary, and 

 the three outer divisions of the perianth are 

 simply upward extensions of this tube. No- 

 tice the peculiar tnist in the ovary. The 

 Fig. 86. effect of this twist is to turn the lip away 



