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VARIOUS FOOD-PLANTS 



Fig. 31. — Almond {Pni/ui^s A)ii!/fjdalus. Rose Family, Ro^'^accce). A, twin 

 hearing one unopened winter-bud and a eluster of young leaves ex- 

 panding from another. B, a flowering branch. C, a single flower. 

 D, the same cut vertically to show the single pistil with its small ovary at 

 the })as(' of an urn-like eontinuation of the flower-stalk at the rim of 

 whieh ;irr borne three sets of organs, namely: the stamens which are 

 nurnemiis ;ind in two rows; then outside of these a. single row of deli- 

 catf en \'< 'toping organs, the pelcls, ' which in the ahnond llowcr arr 



' We h;ivr h'Te ;ui examph' of a "coinpleti' " llower or one whicli has ;dl 

 the kinds of organs wlnrh arr romnjonly present; that is in say, brsides the 



