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DESCRIPTION OF PLATES LVI AND LVII. 
Illustrating Dr. Marie C. Stopes’s paper on the Fossil Flower, Cretovarium. 
PLATE LVI. 
Phot. i. Transverse section of the ovary lying in the granular matrix. It shows the three 
loculi, the double-layered wall, and the ovules in the loculus, which appears black owing to the 
granules of the matrix. Cf. Fig. i, PI. LVII. x 44 diameters. 
Phot. 2. Enlargement of part of the upper loculus, showing the cells of the ovary wall ( ow ) and 
the inner fibrous layer (f). At a is the ovule No. 1 in Fig. 1, PI. LVII; b , the ovule No. 2 in 
Figs. 1 and 3, PI. LVII; c , the small cells of the axis of the carpels. 
PLATE LVII. 
Fig. 1. Diagram showing the outline of the ovary and the ovules contained, numbered 1, 2, &c. 
Fig. 2. Drawing of details of ovule No. 6. 
Fig. 3. Drawing of details of ovary wall (ow, soft, outer cells; f, fibres) and of ovules Nos. 2, 
3, and 4. 
