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fu (i-A.K^ Ik^dj^ The Sexual Organs 



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Funaria is strictly dioec ie^Hs. The male plants (Fig. lOl, 

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ones crowded so as to present much the appearance of a flower 

 whose centre forms a small reddish disc. These male plants 

 either grow separately or more or less mixed with the females. 



