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Each consists of a free filament,' inflexed in the bud, and an introrse 

 two-celled anther dehiscing longitudinally. Below the insertion of 

 the stamens the receptacle is lined by a glandular disk of variable 



Pi/rus communis. 



Fig. 458. 

 Longitudinal section of flower. 



Fig. 459. 

 Diagram. 



thickness at the edge, which may either reach the top of the receptacle, 

 or leave bare a zone of variable breadth below the insertion of the 

 perianth and anclroceura. The gynseceum consists either of five 



Ft/riifi Malifs (Commuti Apple). 



Fig. 460. 

 Lonejitudinal section of fruit. 



Via. IGl. 

 Transverse section of fruit. 



carpels superposed to the sepals,' or of a smaller number, often two. 

 Each is formed of au ovary buried in the bottom of the receptacle, 

 whose free inner edge is traversed by a longitudinal groove, and con- 

 tinuous with an erect style terminating above the receptacular sac 



' Or riirely cohering near its base witli tlic fokls, and in water they become spherical, with 



neiglibouring filaments, though only for a short three bands, according to H. Mohl {Ann. Sc. 



extent, just as in ^r%j/wr^. Nat.,s6r. 2, iii., 3 10). It is the same with all 



* The pollen grains are ovoidal, with three the Powaceoi examined by this botanist. 



