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oe PLATE THE ‘NINTH. 
Flowers. 
Fig. 1. Cupressus sempervirens, Cupressidee. Male 
catkin, long, composed of about twenty opposite bracteze, 
dilated at top into a scale, and having at bottom four glo- 
bular anthers, one-celled and sessile, as at a. 
_ Fig. 2. A-bractea detached from the male cathin of the 
same, and seen from behind, with its four anthers opened. 
Fig. 3. The bottle-shape cupule of abe same cut length- 
ways, and much magnified. 
a. The female flower ; : pereataaia simple, adherent ; 
stigma sessile. 
Fig.4. The female catkin of the same. The orifices of 
the minute cupules are visible among the bractee. 
Fig. 5. Larix Europea. <Alietidece. A scale or bractea 
of the otaale catkin, having at its base two cupules. 
a. The two cupules, bottleshape. 
b. The scalelike peduncle supporting the cupules; these 
peduncles enlarge after flowering, much more than the 
bractea itself. 
Fig. 6. Huracrepitans. Euphorbiacee. A male flower 
detached from the catkin. | 
a. The perianthium. 
. Androphore thick, cylindrical, with two rows of an- 
thers in whirls. 
Fip. 7. Euphorbia Illyrica. Euphorbiaceae. The many- 
flowered calathide. 
a. Involucrum. 
6. Female flower in the centre, formed of a pedicelled 
ovary, with three two-lobed stigmata. 
c. Male flowers several, composed of a single stamen, 
articulated upon a pedicell ; anthers twin. 
dg. Filament jointed. 
Fig. 8. Hyacinthus cernuus. Asphodelee. Pengoninm 
monosepalous, six-parted. 
Fig. 9. Ixia Chinensis. Iridee. Perigonium adherent, 
lobes spreading, stamens three, style three-cut. 
Fig. 10. Borrago officinalis. Boraginece. Calyx five- 
“parted, open; corolla wheel-like, five-parted, orifice of the 
tube having bosses, a; surrounding it. 
Mig.11. Centranthus marinus. ‘Valerianee. The entire 
flower; calyx adherent, limb rolled inwards, which be-— 
comes a pappus after the flowering.; corolla tubular, spur- 
red, \imb irregular; stamen one: style one. 
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