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named which will not at once disclose its mono- 

 petalous character to the most cursory examination. 

 One-petaled, therefore, are our present flowers, like 

 those of our last Handful, but the attachment of 



Fig. 63. — One-pieeed deciduous corolla of common Speedwell, 

 a a, the stameus attached to the corolla, 



the corolla is like that of our first-examined blossom 

 of the many-petaled families — namely, to the recepr 

 tacle beneath the ovary, and not to the calyx. Our 

 present plants, therefore, belong to the one-petaled 

 *' CorolKflorsB " section, in contradistinction to the 

 one-petaled Calyciflor^. Now, before goinff further, 

 let us get a clear idea where we are in the 

 botanical world. We made our entrance into it, 

 as you may remember, by examining plants* which 

 had blossoms in many distinct pieces, whereof the 

 buttercups and their i-elations were prominent ex- 

 amples, the blossoms having both petals and stamens 

 jBxed to the receptacle just beneath the seed vessel 

 or vessels. Our next move was to plants which, 

 still with many petals, had both petals and stamens 



* See Handful No. 1. 



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