4& THE rLo;^^i:E.""~'^' . 



Sometimes tiiese divisions are veiy evident, Ijeing but slightly 

 connected, while in other cases, all external marks of thtm dis- 

 appear. When simple, it of conrse consists of a single carpeL 

 (Fig. 10.) 



78.^The STYLE is that prolonged columnar part of the ovary^ 

 or rather of each caiiiel, wMch bears the stigma at its top) The 

 number of the styles, when they are not wanting,:''alwayb equals 

 the number of carpels; but when the carpels are closely united, 

 the styles may be united also, into a single compound column, 

 or they may even then remain distinct. 



79. The STiGMA^is the upper portion, or extremity, of th(3 style, 

 extremely various in fomi, but usually globidar. Like th<^. ovary 

 and style, it is either simple or compound. ^ When it is- com- 

 pound it consistsrof as many united lobes as there are carpels^ 



80. The number of distinct styles (or of stigmas, when the 

 styles are wanting) constitutes the basis of the artificial orders, 

 into which the first thirteen classes of Linnajus are sitbc ivided. 

 They are named from the Greek numerals prefixed to 'he ter- 

 mination gynia, (yvprj, 51, Note,) as follows. 



Order 1. Monogynia, includes all the genera of pli.nts in 

 either of the fij-st thirteen classes, with one style 

 to the flower. 



2. Digynia, with two styles to the flower^ 



3. Trigyuia, ivith three styles. 



4. Tetragynia, with four st^des. 



5. Pentagynia, -with five styles. 



6. Hexagynia, with six styles. 



7. Heptagynia, with seven styles., 



8. Octogynia, with eight styles. 



9. Enneagynia, with nine styles. 



10. Decagynia, with ten styles.*' 



11. Dodecagynia, -with eleven or twelve styles. 



12. Polygynia, with more than twelve styles.* 



*The orders of the remaining classes are founded upon characters not dcpend- 

 jEg upon the pistil, and are as follows : — 



The orders of class 14, DidjTiaraia, are only two ; 



1. Gymnosperraia, with seeds apparently naked. 



2. Angiospermia, with seeds evidently in a seed-vessel, or pericarp. 



