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late or rarely bilabiate, greenish-yellow to white, or through pink- 
crimson and purple to blue (Chicory). Stamens five, epipetalous, 
filaments distinct, anthers united into an upright anther-box (so 
synantherous) into which pollen is shed before or during opening 
Fig. 236 .—Matricaria chamomilla —Branch and dissected flowers. ( Sayre .) 
of each floret. Carpels two, syncarpous, ovary inferior, one-celled 
with single ovule; style simple, at first short, later elongating and by 
collecting hairs sweeping pollen to top of anther box, then dividing 
into two stigmatic surfaces with stigmatic hairs for pollen reception. 
