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One point makes the above view more probable in Acropera than in other cases, viz. the presence of rudimentary placentae or testae, for I cannot hear that these have been observed in the male plants.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Sir Francis Darwin
Yet when I call to mind the state of the placentae in A. luteola, I am astonished that they should produce ovules.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Sir Francis Darwin
As I traced the placentae upwards, the ovules appeared, becoming gradually more abundant towards its apex.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Sir Francis Darwin
Two placentae were expelled some time after the twins, and showed a membranous junction.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
In making longitudinal sections of the fertilised ovary before mentioned, I found the basal portion entirely destitute of ovules, their place being substituted by transparent cellular ramification of the placentae.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Sir Francis Darwin
