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All these flowers have only one real pistil, — one 
pistil which may persuade you, by the way in which it 
separates above, into thinking that there are 
more than one. So you must be on your 
guard in this respect, and remember that 
flowers have a way of playing tricks with 
all but the most wide-awake of boys 
and girls. Look long and carefully 
before you declare that a flower has 
only one pistil. 
Bere. we. see half -of: -a- buttercup 
ei iie 104) ~Phe buttercup has a great 
many entirely separate pistils. Look 
sharply at the pic- 
ture, and you will see them crowded 
upon the little thimble-shaped ob- 
ject in the middle of the blossom 
Do not confuse them with the 
stamens, for the buttercup has also 
a great many stamens. When but- 
tercup time comes round, I want 
every one of you to look at these many pistils and 
stamens. 
The next picture (Fig. 195) shows you a 
strawberry. In the strawberry blossom the 
pistils are so small, and so crowded, and so 
hidden by the many stamens, that it is not 
easy to see them; and so I show you the full- 
grown berry, with little pistils scattered all over 
its surface. Each of those tiny objects which Fic. 195 
stand out on the strawberry is a separate pistil. 
