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obtuse stigmata. This ovary has two cells, and for each cell a 
large placenta, lobed, with one atropal ovule inserted upon the 
partition which separates them. The fruit is a berry or apple, 
containing a number of compressed seeds, supplied with a fleshy 
albumen and an embryo bent round upon itself. 
Fig. 427.— Potato plant and tubers. 
The Solane are plants with simple alternate leaves without 
stipules, the stems of which are herbaceous, ligneous, oF sub- 
ligneous, and the inflorescence is indefinite. 
he Tuberous Morell (which has also been called Solanum tubers 
osum), of which we have been writing, is better known as the 
Potato (Fig. 427). This useful vegetable came originally from 
