LILIACEOUS FLOWERS. «-> 



Bell-flower, Honeysuckle, or Marvel of Peru, it 

 would be called monopetalous. But to return to the 



Lily. 



You will find, exactly in the middle of the corolla, 

 a sort of little column rising 'from the bottom, and 

 pointing directly upwards ; this, taken as a whole, 

 is called the pistil or pointal : taken in its parts, it is 

 divided into three. 1 . The swollen base, with three 

 blunted angles, called the germ or ovary; 2. A 

 thread placed upon this, called the style; 3. The 

 style crowned by a sort of capital with three notches : 

 this capital is called the stigma. 



Between the pistil and the corolla you find six other 

 bodies entirely separate from each other, which are 

 called the stamens. Each stamen is composed of two 

 parts, one long and slender, by which it is attached to 

 die bottom of the corolla, and called the filament ; 

 the other thicker, placed at the top of the filament, 

 and called anthera or anther. Each anther is a kind 

 of box or cell, which opens commonly on either side 

 lengthwise when it is ripe, and throws out a yellow 

 dust, which has often a strong odor, and this is 

 called pollen or farina. 



Such is the general analysis of the parts which con- 

 stitute a flower. As the corolla fades and falls, the 

 germ inci eases, and becomes an oblong triangular 

 capsule, within which are flat seeds arranged in a 

 double order in three cells. This capsule, considered 

 as the cover of the seeds, takes the name of pericarp. 

 In the Tulip the second part of the pistil, or style, is 

 absent. All these parts of the flower, and in the 

 same number, though differing in size and form, will 

 also be found in the single Hyacinth.* The same 



* For a figure of these parts as composing a liliaceous flower, 

 see the end of the volume. 



