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pistil there are many closely packed together 

 and bearing no styles ; all there is to these 

 pistils is a little ovary and a minute sessile 

 stigma. These ovaries ripen into pods or 

 fruit, like Fig. 37. The flowers of the but- 

 tercup, of the wind flowers or 

 anemones, of the clematis, of 

 the pretty hepatica or liver-leaf, 

 and other plants, are made up in 

 essentially the same manner as 

 Fig. 37. those of the marsh-marigold, and 

 they are therefore all united into one fam- 

 ily, the Crowfoots. If we examine the morn- 

 ing-glory flower in 

 Fig. 38 we notice at 

 once that the petals 

 are all united into 

 one bell. Since we 

 cannot speak of 

 the petals individ- 

 ually, we must now 

 speak of them col- 

 lectively; wethere- 

 ^^s-3^- fore call the beU 



the corolla. But even if the petals were not 

 united we could properly speak of them col- 

 lectively as the corolla. The sepals, taken 

 together in like manner, may be styled the 



