Flowers and their Parts 



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When carpels are separate as they are in Crassula, they 

 are said to be apocarpous. When they are joined as in 

 Hibisais, they are syncarpous. The parts of a pistil are- 

 ovary, style, and stigma. 



Crassula, Hibiscus, Ornithogahim (" Chinkering chees"), 



Fig. 102. — Flower of Thorn-apple (Z'^jZ/^rrt 

 Stramoniwii) (natural size), showing 

 gamosepalous calyx. (From Thome 

 and Bennett's ".Structural and Phy- 

 siological Botany.") 



Fig. 103. — Hibiscus cethiopi- 

 cns, L. (From Edmonds 

 and Marloth's " Elementary 

 Botany in South Africa.") 



FrG. 104. — Pistil of 

 Lily, with ovary, 

 style, and stigma, 

 (From Thome and 

 Bennett's " Struc- 

 tural and Physio- 

 logical Botany.") 



and other flowers have four whorls. Their flowers are 

 complete. 



Clematis (Traveller's Joy), Frotea, and others have but 

 one whorl of floral leaves. Although it may be showy, the 



