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THE (^mnVFOOT FAMILY 



growtli of buds fitted to live over the winter \vc may safely 

 conclude that we have a perennial plant. If, on the con- 



FiG. 2S5, 11. — Mouse-tail. Pistil, entire. Same, cut vertically. Staminode. 



(Baiilon.) 



Fir.. 2SG. — Fennel-flowers (NiocUa -saliva and -^^ ihuimsana. Crowfoot 

 Family, Ranimculnccai). A, flowering top of A', xnliiii. B, flower, cut 

 vertically. C, stamen. D, staminode. E, fruit. F, pistil. G', seed, 

 entire, and cut vertically. H, floral diagram. J, fruit of -V. daniascrna, 

 cut across. (LeMaout and Decaisno.) — .\nnuals with bluish or white 

 flowers and dry fruit. Nati^'es of the C)]d AN'orld. 



trary, a full grown herb lacks all such signs of a previous 

 year's growth or of iirovision for the fviture, it is clearly an 



