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VARIOUS FOOD-PLANTS 



Fir;. 73. — Spinach. Flowering; i>raiicli. (Hailluii.) 



Fig. 74. — Spinach. A, staininate flower, top view. B, pistillate flower, 

 side view. C, pistil, with part of ovary wall cut away to show the ovule 

 "within. D, fruit. E, the same, cut in half vertically showing seed and 

 coiled germ. F, 0, other forms of fruit. All tJie figures more or less 

 magnified. (Volkens.) 



Fi<;. - I It / / , ^ I I l.^. / 



during i-iw\y [)crind of growlli, show in^ tlic (■( .lupad <'( I ni.s( 

 (Nicholson.) — Tlie |.hinf is an ainniMl, smooth throug]i(^ 

 a height of al.oiit 1 in., llouvr-< xvllou, 



