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PRACTICAL BOTANY. 



gan (Fig. 3), and gynandi'ous^ when they cohere with the 

 style. (Fig. XIIT., 12«.) 



Fig. 1, a flower of Anemone, entire ; 2, of a Cherry ; 3, of a Vaccinium, both verti- 

 cally divided. 



110. The STAMENS, as we have stated in §§ 57 and 58, 

 ai-e cither distinct, or united with each other, or with the 

 style (§ 109). Monadelphous stamens have their fila- 

 ments united either at tliebase only, as in Stuartia, or con- 

 solidated into a column or eheath, as in Mallows (PI. 

 lY., ^a) and some leguminous plants. 



Diadelphous stamens are Btamens united into two sets, 

 or bundles, as in the Fumariacece (PI. lY., la\ and most 

 Leguminosm (PI. Y., 35). Triadelphous stamens we see 

 in several species of Hypericum, and pentadelphous ones 

 in Gordonia. For triadelphous and pentadelphous we 

 usually employ the term jpolyadeljphous. 



Syngenesious stamens are those which are united hy 

 their anthers^ and mostly so as to leave the filaments dis- 

 tinct. But sometimes the filaments of syngenesious sta- 

 mens are united. Stamens of this sort we find in the 

 Cucurbits^ etc. (§ 61). In this order they are also some- 

 times triadelphous (PI. Y., Oa). Syngenesious stamens 

 with the filaments free, we have in the whole order 

 of the Composites. (PL YII., 6a) 



