BOTANICAL SECTION ‘S 
COMMON BOTANICAL TERMS. 
(tr, Caxyx, i.e. sepals (S) usually green. 
Complete 2. CoroLta, i.e. petals (P) usually brightly coloured. 
flowers /3> OTAMENS (St), bearing pollen—a yellow powder 
contain contained in the anthers. 
4. Pistiz, consisting of carpels. Each carpel has an 
ovary at the base, and a style arising from it. 
When it is difficult to distinguish the calyx from the corolla 
the term pertanth is used to include them both. 
A Fiower (FI) is regular (reg) when all the petals (or other 
parts) are equal; otherwise it is srregular. 
Flowers are solitary, in heads, in sptkes, in umbels, in racemes 
(spikes with stalked flowers), &c. 
A Fruit (Fr) is a ripened ovary, and may be a berry, pod or 
capsule, nut, or stone-fruit. 
Leaves (Ls) are opposite, when two spring from the same 
point on stem on different sides; alternate, when only one 
comes off at one point, the next springing from the other side 
of the stem; whorled, when many leaves spring from same 
point on the stem ; vadica/, when they come from near the root, 
and not from the stem, 
