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petals, and two more superposed to the sepals, all four usually trilobate. 1 

 The androceum consists of four stamens superposed two to the outer 

 and two to the inner petals. 2 Each has a free filament and an 



Hypecoum procumbens. 



Fig. 143. 

 Flower (a). 



Fig. 145. 

 Flower unexpanded. 



Fig. 144. 

 Lonjr. sect, of flower. 



Fig. 146. 

 Flower dissected. 



Fig. 149. 

 Long. sect, of part 

 of the fruit (f). 



introrse two-celled anther of longitudinal dehiscence. The free 

 gynaeceum consists of an elongated one-celled ovary, surmounted by 

 a style with two stigmatiferous branches, superposed to the outer 

 petals. The placentas, alternating with these, are parietal, each 



1 In this case the three lobes are imbricated, of alternation, in two dimerous verticils as in 

 as though they were three distinct petals. JSpimedium. 



2 For they are arranged according to the law 



