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Fig. 59, III. — .lerusaleni Artiehoku. A disk Hower enlarged and cut ver- 

 tically to show the single pistil with two stigmas, long style with nectar 

 glands at base, and one-celled ovary containing a single erect ovule; 

 appearing above the ovary is a tubular corolla dividing into five petal- 

 tips (of which but tliree are shown), and bearing as many stamens the 

 anthers of which are united into a tube; also appearing above the ovary 

 are slender sepals; and at the base of the flower a chaffy bract from the 

 axil of which the flower arises. A neutral ray-ffower having no stamens 

 and only the vestige of a pistil in its rudimentary ovary, but showing 

 a chaffy bract at its base, several sepals, and a much enlarged corolla 

 formed as if by the splitting of a tube nearly to the bottom along its 

 inner side. (Baillon.) 



Fig. .J9, IV. — .Jerusalem Artichoke. Fruit, side view, enlarged. Thi' same 

 cut vertically to show the germ occupying the whole of the seed within. 

 (B.aillon.) 



