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(in the sugar-cane) three stigmas. The fruit has. a dry pericarp, andis 
an indehiscent cavyopsis, the seed adhering in its growth to the pericarp * # 
and often to the pales. The embryo is small, on the outside of a- 
- large floury endosperm, and is enveloped by the single large cotyledon, - 
Fic. 461.—I. Expanded spikelet of the oat, witha fertile and a barren flower Fs: 
G glumes ; pe outer pale, with awn A; PZ inner pale; within are the feathery — 
stigmas ; II. fertile flower with the outer pale removed (all much magnified) ; 
III. diagram of a spikelet with two fertile and one barren flower A; B paleze; GL 
glumes ; IV. longitudinal section of a seed; A endosperm ; Cc the single cotyle- 
don ; G plumule; R radicle; T testa; o hairs (greatly magnified). f 
