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MEDICINAL HERBS AND POISONOUS PLANTS 



made up of two ovaries joined tooether; it is, in fa(;t, a 

 comijound oijarij. In the same way the style is really 



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Enlai'geil Scition 

 of ristil 



compound, being made up of two styles joined together. 

 In describing the pistil of the Foxglove, we should say 

 that it is composed of two carpels. The ovaries and 



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Fif". 5.— Various Ty|>es of Pistils 



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styles of these two carpels are completely united in this 

 pistil, but tlie two stigmas (or stigmata) are free. In 

 otlier plants it will be found that the number of carpels 

 composing the pistil is not the same, and that the degree 



