THE STYLE.—GYNOBASE, 287 
as in the Primrose ( fig. 582): it isthen termed apicilar or apical. 
In other cases, the apex of the ovary becomes inflected towards 
the side or base, from the carpel or carpels of which it is formed, 
being folded like ordinary leaves in reclinate vernation, the style 
then becomes lateral as in the Strawberry (jig. 638), or basilar 
as in Alchemilla (fig. 639). In the two latter cases, therefore, 
the geometrical and organic apices of the ovary do not correspond, 
as the point of origin of the style always determines the latter. 
The style is generally directly continuous with the ovary, 
which gradually tapers upwards to it, as in Digitalis, in which 
case it is more or less persistent, and then it forms a more or 
less evident part of the fruit; at other times, however, there 
is a kind of contraction or species of articulation at the point 
where the style springs from the ovary, as in Scirpus, and then 
Fic. 640. 
Fic. 638. Fic. 639. 
Fig. 638. One of the carpels of the Strawberry with a lateral style—— 
Fig. 639. Carpel of Alchemilla with a basilar style. The stigma is capitate. 
— Fig. 640. The carpophore, c, of a species of Geranium, with the rolled- 
back carpels, ca7’. 
the style always falls off after the process of fertilisation is com- 
pleted, in which case it is said to be deciduous, and has no con- 
nexion with the fruit. 
When the style is basilar or lateral, and the ovary to which 
it is attached more or less imbedded in the thalamus, it fre- 
quently appears to spring from the latter part ; such an arrange- 
ment is called a gynobase, and the ovary is said to be gynobasic. 
Thus in the Labiatz (jig. 609), and Boraginacez (fig. 610), the 
ovaries are free, but the styles become connected and form 
a central column, which appears therefore to be a prolongation 
of the thalamus. 
Such an arrangement must not be confounded with that of 
