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features when they first cease to be axial and become appen- 

 dicular. Tlie accompanying diagrams (Fig. 19), (a) Lysi- 

 machia nemoricm and (h) Primula veris, will illustrate these 



a. 



Fig. 19.— a, Lysimachia r)emo7'um ; b. Primula veris. 



remarks. The sections are taken on planes * where the 

 pistil is emergirg fi'om the receptacle ; s. represents the 

 sepaline cords ; ah. st. abortive staminal cords ; p. the petal- 

 ine and staminal (combined) ; d.c. dorsal carpellary ; pi. c. 

 placentary cords. 



A free central placenta may result from the destruction 

 of the septa of an originally axile placenta, as occurs in the 

 Caryophyllece. Thus, the ten rows of ovules in Lychnis 

 sufficiently indicated tlieir marginal origin. I may add that 

 a careful investigation into the origin and distribution of the 

 cords has convinced me that the axis in flowers of the 

 Caryophylleoi early ceases to take any part in the structure 

 of the pistil. 



* Fig. a represents a section taken rather lower down than in Fig. & ; 

 as the cords in the latter are still undiiforentiated in Fig. a. 



