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are borne. The calyx is free from or grown to the ovary, 

 five-lobed, and sometimes subtended by a set of bracts 

 (epicalyx, as in strawberry). The petals are distinct, as 

 many as the lobes of the calyx and inserted on the margin of 



\\eshj 

 'recefiacle 

 -drupelet 



calw lobe 



stigma 



Fig. i47.-»-American red raspberry (Rubus strigosus). A , median lengthwise 

 section of flower, X 4; B, same of fruit, X 4; C, single immature pistil, X 5. 



the disk (Fig. 147). This disk is an outgrowth of the recep- 

 tacle and forms a flat rim about the calyx base. In cultivated 

 roses there are numerous petals which have developed from 

 primordia that normally become stamens. This bears out the 



