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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



outwards and downwards. After floration, every portion of the 

 flower situated above tlie ovary is detached, and the fruit crowned 



(Enothera biennis. 



Fig. 429. Long, sect, of flower. 



Fig. 427. Floriferous "branch (|). 



with a scar, is a loculicidal capsule, the valves of which separate 

 from top to bottom of a central column. The seeds, numerous, 

 irregularly compressed, enclose a fleshy embryo, with conical radicle, 

 most frequently inferior. 



