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PLANT STEDCTUKES 



The flowers are usually very simple, often being naked, 

 with two to nine stamens, and one to four carpels (Fig. 



Fig. 2^'). Jack-in-the-pulpit {Arhai/uD, showing the overarching spathes; in one 

 case a side view shows the naked tip of the projecting spailix.— After Aticinson. " 



197). They are inconspicuous and closely set upon the 

 lower part of a fleshy axis, which is naked above and often 



