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Other parts are arranged, is unshaken, although some authors would 

 wish to make it appear otherwise. If an ovary is opened, it will 

 be seen that at one particular part there is an attachment for the 

 ovules, or young seeds ; this is called the placenta, and generally 

 occupies the whole or a portion of one angle of each cell. 



According to the writings of De Candolle, Turpin, and Du Petit 

 Thenars, the pistil is either a modification of a single leaf, or of one 

 or more whorls of such leaves, which are technically called carpels. 

 Each carpel has its own ovary, style, and stigma, and is formed by 

 a folded leaf, the upper surface of which is turned inwards, the lower 

 outwards, and the two margins of which develope one or a greater 

 number of buds which arc in a rudimentary state, and are called the 

 ovules. Pistils containing but one carpel are simple; if several, 

 are compound. 



There has been great dispute among vegetable physiologists as to 

 the part in which the placenta and ovule originate, some maintaining 

 that the margins of the carpels produce the ovule buds, for which 

 opinion Dr. Lindley is a staunch advocate ; others maintaining, 

 (among whom stands Dr. Schleiden,) that they are produced by the 

 axis of the carpel, and not by the edges ; however this may be it is 

 not of much practical import, but merely interesting in a physiological 

 point of view. j. h. g. 



THE SITUATION OF WOMEN IN SOCIETY. 

 (From the French of If. Segur.) 



Women are (if I may use the expression) another soul of our 

 being, though enveloped in a separate covering. They accord most 

 uniformly with all our sentiments, which they inspire ; with all our 

 desires, which they excite and in which they participate ; with all 

 our weaknesses, which they can commiserate without yielding to 

 their influence. If man be unhappy, he requires of his soul an 

 energy to enable him to support the load of physical sufferings, and 

 of moral evils, still more difficult to sustain. But as this assistance 

 must originate within himself, it necessarily partakes of the dejection 

 which pervades his whole being. Should he resort to his other 



