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EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXIX. 



I. The Mignonette Tribe. — 1. A few flowers of Mignonette 

 (Reseda odorata). — 2. A perfect flower magnified ; a a sepals; b the 

 upper and larger petals, with their crested appendages. — 3. One of the 

 upper petals still more magnified, — 4. A flower with its sepals and 

 petals cut off, shewing at a the gynophore, and at b the disk, with 

 the stamens and ovary within them — 5. The upper end of a filament, 

 with its anther. — 6. A view of the young ovary, when the petals 

 and stamens have dropped off; a the gynophore, b the disk. — 7. 

 A transverse section of the ovary, with the ovules adhering in triple 

 rows to the three parietal placentse. — 8. A ripe fruit, opening by a tri- 

 angular passage, b, at the tipex, and having the remains of the disk, a, 

 adhering to its base. — 9. A ripe seed ; a the scar. — I 0. A longitudinal 

 section of the same, with the dicotyledonous embryo ; a the scar. 



II. The Caper Tribe. — 1 . A twig of the prickly Caper 

 {Capparis spinosa) in flower; a the gynophore, b the ovary, c c the 

 spiny stipules. — 2. A young flower-bud, in the state in which it is 

 gathered for pickling. — 3. A transverse section of the same, magnified. 

 — 4. A view of a the disk, b the gynophore, c the ovary, d the stigma, 

 e the receptacle of the stamens magnified. — 5. A transverse section of 

 the ovary, with the ovules adhering to the plate-like parietal placentae. 

 — 6. A portion of a ripe fruit cut across. — 7. A ripe seed ; a the scar. 

 — 8. An embryo extracted from the seed. 



