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naked. In one particular the description should be amended. 
Under favorable circumstances it often attains the height of thirty 
inches, and its range of stature is about that of F. Fagopyrum, 
‘one to two feet. 
Fedia radiata Michx., var. patellaria (F. patellaria Sulliv.). 
Fig. 105. Fruit (from Columbia, Pa.) ; a, side 
View; b, cross section, with the two slightly 
Fig. 106. divergent empty cells 
Fig. 107. 
seen in Fig. 104, a and b, 
and appears to have been 
derived from it by a mod- 
erate extension of the 
T. radiata var. patellaria. walls of the empty cells. 
Fig. 106. Fruit (from Columbia, Pa.) ; a, side 
View ; b, cross section, with the two widely dj- 7 "*iata: var. patellaria. 
vergent empty cells shaded. Here the abnormal lateral extension 
of the walls of the empty cells is carried to an extreme, and they 
are so flattened in the centre and curved up on the margins as 
readily to suggest the image of a minia- Fig. 108. 
ture platter. This is exactly the form , 
of fruit in Mr. Sullivant’s 
above; e, cross section, JF 
vith the empty cells Sa 
gh One specimen of 
* Anipe’s last collection -has this re- 
—. form of fruit throughout. It - 
in Fj ° have been produced by the doubling of that represented : 
8: 106. Two fruits have coalesced by the union of their 
se empty cells, and the dissepiments vanishing have left a 
: ag large cell in the middle. On one side the usually fertile 
all the empty ; on the other, it contains a seed but in some cases 
F. rađiata, var. umbilicata. 
cells are sterile. 
