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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



along or only below, an indefinite number of pluriseriate, oblique 

 or transverse, anatropous ovules. 1 The fruit, at whose base persists 

 the withered perianth, is a capsule, opening above into three or four 



Parnassia paluslris (Grass of Parnassus). 



Fig. 384. 

 Diagram. 



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Fig. 382 

 Habit (i). 



Fig. 385. 



Glanduliferons 



scale (£). 



Fig. 38G. 

 Fruit. 



Fig. 387. 

 Seed. 





valves, each bearing on the centre of its inner face a many-seeded 

 placenta. The seeds (fig. 387) have a lax cellular external coat, in 

 which lies loosely the internal mass. This contains a fleshy cylind- 



1 They have two coats, very distinct towards the micropvle. 



