92 MORPHOLOGY. 
If the ovary is superior, i. ¢., if it occupies the uppermost part 
of the flower, and the stamens and perigon are inserted below it, 
the flower is called hypogynous ' (Potentillee) (Fig. 8, a); if, 
however, the andreeceum and perigon are elevated above the 
ovary upon a cup-shaped, annular wall, by means of an axial 
ring of the hypanthinm located below the ovary, which latter 
then remains at the base of the cup, the flower is called perigy- 
nous * (Rosex) (Fig. 8, 2); if the cup is now firmly closed at the 
top, there is formed the epigynous flower * (Pomew) (Fig. 8, c). 
In the two latter cases, the ovary is ¢nferior. 
The ovary is unilocular (Fig. 21) when the carpels -are united 
by their edges; multilocular when ‘the carpels are turned in- 
Fra. 8—a, hypogynous; 6, perigynous; c, epigynous flower, longitudinal section 
(Prantl). 
ward, and are in contact by their surfaces (Fig. 20). Through 
_ the formation of false dissepiments, a polymerous ovary can also 
become further divided (Labiate : 2 carpels and 4 compartments . 
or cells [nutlets or achenia], Linwm), or a unilocular ovary can 
become multilocular (Crucifere, Papaver). The false dissepi- 
ments, which, moreover, often produce but an incomplete divi- — 
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