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the tips of the petals. In the Vine the arrangement 

 is different from all those just mentioned, and equally 

 simple ; a considerable number of supernumerary pa- 

 nicles are prepared, on which no flowers are formed, 

 but in their room a power of twisting round adjoining 

 bodies is communicated to the branches ; and these 

 form what we call tendrils. But to return to other 

 matters. 



Each flower of a Vine (jig. 2.) consists of a calyx 

 without any lobes to it (a.') ; five petals (b.) that hold 

 together at the point, separate at the base, and are 

 carried upwards ^dth the extension of the stamens ; of 

 five stamens (jig. 2. c. and jig. 3.) opposite the petals, 

 wdth long thread-shaped filaments and small oval an- 

 thers ; of five glands alternating with the stamens (jig. 

 2. d/. ) ; and of a two-celled superior ovary, with a sessile 

 roundish stigma (jig. 3.). In each cell of the ovary 

 are two upright o\Tiles (jig. 5. & 6.). The fruit is, 

 as you know, a succulent berry, with one, or two, or 

 three, or four, hard seeds nestling in the pulp (jig. 7.). 

 These seeds are not a little curious ; each has a pear- 

 shaped figure (jig. 8.), and consists firstly of a tough 

 external even coating, and secondly of a wavy bony 

 lining, which does not follow^ the form of the outer skin, 

 but puckers up, if I may so say, and forms a pear- 

 shaped stone convex on one side, but with two deep 

 furrows on the other, so that when you cut through it 

 crosswise it looks almost like the letter T (fig. 1).). 

 In the inside of the stone is a hard albumen, at the 

 base of which (fig. 10.) lies a tiny embryo {fig. 11.). 



