210 ALTERATION OF POSITION. 
rating the style and allowing it to assume a vertical 
direction. 
M. Carriere! has described an instance wherein two 
apples were joied together, a larger and a smaller one ; 
the former was directed away from the centre of the 

il 
1 
= =3 g —-_ en Bi 











Fre. 118.—Flower of Cuphea miniata enlarged, showing protrusion 
and hypertrophy of an erect placenta, after Morren. 

Fia. 114.—Placenta from the flower shown at fig. 113; the ovary is 
membranous and torn, the placenta, erect and ovuliferous, after Morren. 
tree as usual, while the smaller one was pointed in 
exactly the opposite direction. The larger fruit had the 
1 § Rev. Hortic.,’ 1868, p. 110. 
