The other name for the eudicots is tricolpates, a name which refers to the grooved structure of the pollen. Members of the group have tricolpate pollen, or forms derived from it.
Ness collapsed and died at his home in Coudersport, Pennsylvania of a massive heart attack on May 16, 1957, at the age of 54. Collaborating with Oscar Fraley in his last years, he co-wrote the book The Untouchables, which was published a month after his death.
His adopted son, Robert Eliot Ness, was the first to die. He married but had no children. In 1976, he was diagnosed with leukemia and died, his ashes mixed with his fatherâs. Betty was next. She died in 1977 of cancer. She was also cremated and her ashes mixed with her son and husband. The ashes remained in the daughter-in-law's garage for 20 years until Rebecca McFarland from the Cleveland Historical Society got a memorial and a funeral together for Eliot Ness. The ashes were scattered over Lake Erie.