APPENDIX II. 



composing it are united to one another. A syncarpous ovary is 

 1-celled where the component carpels only cohere by their 

 edges or where the coherent edges are incurved without 

 reaching the axis, it is 2- or more-celled where the coherent 

 edges of th« carpels are sufficiently incurved to meet one 

 another in the axis of the ovary, so as to form walls, or septa. 

 Septa sometimes arise also by vertical walls between the axis 

 of the ovary and the mid -ribs of the carpels. (See also 

 Pistil, and Introduction, p. 49). 



Ovate, egg-shaped with the broader end towards the base. 



Ovate-lanceolate, ovate-oblong, etc., between ovate and 

 lanceolate, between ovate and oblong, etc. 



Ovule, usually small or minute bodies attached to the car- 

 pellary leaves (carpels) in the Gymaosperms, and usually to 

 the carpellary leaves, bnt sometimes on the base or on the free 

 axis of the ovary in the Angiosperms, always in the Angios- 

 perms inside the closed ovary. The ovule consists of a central 

 portion (macro sporangium, nucellus) and nearly always of bee 

 or two integuments' which envelop the nucellus by growing up 

 from its base, it is attached by a stalk, funicle, to the placenta 

 or is more rarely sessile. If the ovule and nucellas are 

 straight with the micropyle oppesite to the base (chalaza) 

 the ovule is orthotropous, if it is inverted so that theiunicle 

 is adnate to the side (forming the raphe) and the micropyle 

 is directed towards the placenta it is anatropous, in this case 

 the nucellas remains straight between the chalaza and the 

 micropyle, but if the whole ovule including the nucellus is 

 itself curved the ovule is campylotropous. In this case , the 

 embryo also becomes enrved. On fertilization and consequent 

 development of the embryo, the ovule becomes the seed. 



-partite, in composition means cleft nearly to tb« base. 

 Cp. -fid, lobed. 



Pedicel, a stalk. Usually the stalk of a single flower of 

 an inflorescence, or the stalk of a fruit, etc., above the 

 calyx. 



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