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which are generally composed of filaments, " dust-threads" and 

 anthers, "dust-buds," containing one or two (rarely more) anther 

 cells, "dust bags/' filled with pollen, "dust." The innermost 

 part of the flower contains the gynfecium, the female organs, 

 consisting of pistils, " dust-channels," generally composed of an 

 ovary, "fruit-bud," and a style ending in a stigma, " scar." The 

 " fruit-bud" is formed of one or more carpels, " fruit-leaves," 

 furnished with placentas, w egg-stools/' to which the ovules, "eggs," 

 are attached either directly or by a funicle, " egg-string," the 

 point of attachment being termed hilura, umbilicus, "navel." The 

 " fruit-bud" develops into fruit, of which a great many forms are 

 known ; a few of the more important are the legumen or " pod" ; 

 the lomentum, "jointed pod"; the follicle, " podling" ; the siliqua, 

 "double-pod"; the silicula, "short-pod"; the capsule, c 'burst-fruit"; 

 the achene, "nutlet"; the samara, " wing fruit" ; the carcerule, 

 "split fruit"; the pyxis, "lid-fruit"; the nut; the berry; the pepo, 

 ''gourd fruit"; the pome, "pip-fruit"; the cone; the strobilus, 

 a scale-cone" ; the serosis, " fruit mass" ; the sycomus, "cup-fruit," 

 &c, &c. The fruit contains seed, consisting of a testa, " skin" ; 

 a perisperm, <l rind" ; and frequently albumen, " seed-yolk," always 

 enclosing the embryo, " germ," consisting of a radicle, " germ 

 root" ; cotyledons, " seed leaves" ; and a plumule or gernmule, 

 "germ-bud." 



Returning to the flower it will be seen that its different parts 

 are inserted on a receptacle, " fruit seat," and according to the 

 position of this, the flowers are termed hypogynous or inferior, " low 

 seated"; perigynous, "middle-seated"; and epigynous or superior, 

 "high-seated." The flower is either sessile, "sitting," or pedicelUte, 

 " stalked." The pedicels, "flower-stalks, " spring directly from the 

 stem or form part of an inflorescence, "flower-stand," which can 

 assume a great variety of forms — the most important with "stalked" 

 flowers, of which are — the raceme, " spray" ; the corymb, " cluster- 

 spray" ; the panicle and thyrse, " bunch"; the umbel, " tassel" ; the 

 cyme, "fork," which may be dichotomous, "two-pronged"; tricho- 

 tomous, "three-pronged"; or scorpioid or circinate, "coiled"; and 

 then secund, "one-sided"; the fascicle, "cluster," &c. Among 

 " flower-stands" with "sitting" flowers, the most important are the 

 spike or ear ; the amentum or catkin ; the strobile, " scale-cone" ; the 

 spadix, " spindle"; the capitulum or head ; the hypanthodium, " cup- 

 flower" ; and the glomerule "ball." The flowers are frequently 



