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KEY AND FLORA 



(c) Carpels 5-15 (usually 10), 1-seeded. Pilipendula, X 



((/) Akenes 2-6, styles not lengthening after flowering. 



Waldsteinia, VIII 

 (e) Akenes many, on a dry receptacle. Styles not length- 

 ening. Potentilla, IX 

 (/) Akenes many, on a, dry receptacle. Styles lengthening 

 after flowering, forming tails to the akenes. 



Geiim., XI 

 2. Fruit fleshy. 



(a) Akenes several-many, becoming little drupes. 



Rubus, XII 



(J)) Akenes many, dry on ripening, on a fleshy, eatable 



receptacle. ' Fragaria, VII 



(c) Pistil solitary, becoming a drupe Prunus, XIV 



ABC 



Fig. 19. Pistils in the Rose Family 

 A, Prtinus-type; B, Potentilla-type; C, flosa-type. c, calyx; o, ovary 



B 



J'ipe carpels inclosed within the calyx tube. 

 1. Fruit a pome. 



(a) Carpels more than 2-seeded ; seeds covered with a muci- 

 laginous pulp. Fruit 5-oelled. Cydonia, III 

 (J) Carpels 2-seeded (except in some cultivated varieties); 

 seeds without pulp. Fruit 5-celled. Pyi'us, IV 

 (c) Carpels 2-seeded ; fruit 10-celled. Amelanchier, V 



