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PLANT FAMILIES: DICOTYLEDONS. 



over the surface. 



Fig. 226. 



3d. The raspberries, blackberries, etc., 

 represented here by the flower- 

 ing raspberry (Rubus odoratus), 

 fig. 227. 4th. This is repre- 

 sented by the roses. The re- 

 ceptacle is urn-shaped and con- 

 stricted toward the upper por- 

 tion, with the carpels enclosed 



5th. 



IS CUp- 



Flower of Fragaria vesca with columnar j n {}iq base (fief. 2 28). 

 receptacle. (From Warming.) \ &' /* 



Here the receptacle 



shaped or bell-shaped and nearly closed at the mouth as in the 



agrimony. 



428. Lesson XII. The almond or plum family (amygdala- 



cese). — The members of this family are trees or shrubs. The 



common choke-cherry (fig. 

 229) will serve to represent 

 one of the types. The 

 flowers of this species are 

 borne in racemes. The 

 receptacle is cup-shaped. 

 Only one seed in the single 



Fig. 227. 

 Flowering raspberry ( R ubus odoratus). 



Fig. 228. 

 Perigynous flower of rosa. with 

 contracted receptacle. (From 

 Warming.) 



carpel (sometimes two carpels) matures as the calyx falls away. 



