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embryo, a, lying in discoloured albumen. — 10. An embryo very niucb 

 magnified. 



II. The MiLKWoax Tribe. — I. A twig of common Milkwort 

 (Polygala vulgaris). — 2. A complete flovs'er mucli magnified ; a the 

 bracts, b b the small sepals, c c the petaloid sepals, d d the back petals, 

 € the crest. — 3. A corolla from which the sepals have been removed ; a 

 the scars from which the sepals have been taken, b b the back petals, c 

 the crest, r/the hood lying within the pouch. — 4. A portion of the crest 

 very much magnified, and seen from the inside ; a the hood or middle 

 petal, h b the stamens, c one set of fringes, or one of the side petals, 

 cc the other set of fringes, or side petal, dd the hairs on the inside 

 of the crest. — 5. One of the two parcels of stamens, a the filament, b 

 the anthers. — 6. An anther. — 7. An ovary, with the style a, and the 

 stigma 6 c. — 8. A longitudinal section of the ovary, shewing the two 

 pendulous ovules. — 9. A ripe capsule, opening and exposing its seeds 

 a «, between the valves h b. — 10. A seed ; a, its caruncula. — 1 1 . The 

 same cut lengthwise, shewing the embryo b, and the caruncula a. 



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