

(14 === FLOWERING PLANTS 
almost: sessile and syngenesious, forming a cone round a 
3 es and A ae Ne 

Fic. 109.—Woopy NIGHTSHADE, oR BITTERSWEET. 
Gynecum: carpels 2; 
placentation axile, 
Fic, 110.—BELLADONNA. 
oblique, 

joined and superior ; 
Fruit: a berry. 
This plant is not much 
visited by insects, for it 
has no honey and com- 
paratively little pollen. 
The style, which projects 
beyond the cone of 
anthers, curves, so that 
when the anthers dehisce 
at their apex some pollen 
will probably fall on the 
stigmatic surface, and thus 
self-pollination may take 
place in the absence of 
insect visits. 
The Potato plant be- 
longs to the same genus, 
Solanum ; its peopgaven 
by tubers has already been given (“‘ Elementary Botany,’ p. 22). 


