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late or rarely bilabiate, greenish-yellow to white, or through pink- 

 crimson and purple to blue (Chicory). Stamens five, epipetalous, 

 filaments distinct, anthers united into an upright anther-box (so 

 synantherous) into which pollen is shed before or during opening 



FIG. 236. Matricaria chamomilla Branch and dissected flowers. (Sayre.) 



of each floret. Carpels two, syncarpous, ovary inferior, one-celled 

 with single ovule; style simple, at first short, later elongating and by 

 collecting hairs sweeping pollen to top of anther box, then dividing 

 into two stigmatic surfaces with stigmatic hairs for pollen reception. 



