SECTION IV. 
ANATOMY OF THE REPRODUCTIVE 
ORGANS. 
285. The Reproductive Organs are those which serve for 
the continuation of the species. Every plant possesses some - 
means of reproducing its kind; of these there is an infinite 
variety, from the simple homogeneous masses of cellular 
tissue which form the whole reproductive organs (sporules) — 
of the lower tribes, up to the complex and elegant apparatus 
of Frower, Frurr, and Seep, which we observe in the 
higher orders, as in the Apple or the Lily. They form the 
seed or rudiment of a new plant similar to that which pro- 
duced it. At present we shall speak only of the reproduc 
tive organs of flowering plants. 
CHAP. 1—THE FLOWER. — 
I. GENERAL VIEW OF THE FLORAL ORGANS. 
286. The floral organs, taken in the widest sense, consist 
of the Bractea, the Peduncle, the Calyx, the Corolla, the 
Stamen, and the Pistil. The bractea and peduncle may be — 
considered appendages. In the 
accompanying figure, a is the pe- 
-*duncle, 6 the calyx, ¢ corolla, d 
: the stamens, and e the pistil, in 
_ the Deadly Night-shade (Atropa 
