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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



outwards and downwards. After floration, every portion of the 

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



Œnothera biennis. 



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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. 



