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originally as ovules ; so that they are not forced as it were to 

 penetrate the intervals in the opposite row, and apparently form at 

 maturity a single vertical series. Hence it will be easily understood 

 that one can ascribe no such intrinsic importance to this character 



Cochlcaria officinalis (Scurvi/grass). 



F,g. 275. 

 Flowering branch. 



Fig. 278. 

 Long. sect, of flower. 



Fig. 277. 

 Diagram. 



as would allow us to found tribes or series on it, for it has not even 

 a generic or specific value within the series. 



Among the numerous genera of this series some have the cotyle- 

 dons usually accumbent, and hence would correspond to the Arabid- 

 inece in Cheiranthece. This is especially marked in Alyssum (figs. 



