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erect position, the pedicels, which, as has just been described, 

 tended to curve upward, now take on separate and individual 

 positions, by which each is separated from its neighbors equi- 

 distantly, in which position they remain until fertilization 

 has been accomplished, when a further movement results in 

 still wider separation — a movement due apparently to the 

 growth of cushions of tissue at the bases of the pedicels. 



