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Seta vulgarii. 

 Fruits (mag,). 



Beta vulgaris. 

 Flower cut vertically (mag.). 



Herbaceous, suffrutescent, or rarely frutescent PLANTS, glabrous, pubescent or 

 woody. STEMS cylindric or angular, erect or ascending, continuous and leafy, or 

 articulate and often aphyllous. LEAVES alternate, rarely opposite, simple, sessile or 

 petioled, usually flat, entire, toothed, sinuate or cut, sometimes fleshy, semi-cylindric 

 or "cylindric ; stipules 0. FLOWEKS $ , small, regular, often dimorphous (Atriplex) ; 

 sometimes diclinous, or polygamous, sessile or pedicelled, solitary or variously 



