LI OUTLINES OF BOTANY. 
(1) the Ovary, or enlarged ~_ which includes one or more — 
or cells, containin ai one or more small bodies called ovules. These 
the earliest condition of the biter: vas eds. 
nena the lias, spina st from the summit of the ovary and sup- 
wae 
(3) the Stigma, which is sometimes a point (or “Shep m ~~ 
or small head (a ee Hea at on top of the style ary, 
times a portion of its su ore or less lateral and siecle oa fe oe! 
Sasivignished by a looser uedtars; aa covered with minute protuberances 
aenin papillae 
he style i is often wanting, and the stigma is then sessile on the 
er but in the perfect pistil there is ntl at least ie ov -s sie the 
Seow and some portion of stigmatic surface. Without thes e pistil 
perfect, and said to be barren eae setting sec abortive, or came yf 
(Bs), seconting to the degree of imperfectio 
being the essential — of the ms most of the terms 
relatin ng to the number, arrangem of the arpels, apply specially 
to their ovaries. In some wo <b each separate compel. 4 is ca “i d a pis stil, 
all those of a flower oe ng together the gynaecium; but this term is 
in little. use, and the word pistil is oe pitt applied in o collective 
sense. en the san pal are at all united, they are commonly termec¢ 
ree ae a compound ovary. 
The number of carpels or ovaries in a flower is pepensly reduced 
“oe ban of the parts of the other floral whorls, even in flowers otherwise 
symmetrical. In a very few genera, however, the o ovaries are more nume 
rous than the petals, or indefinite. They are in that case ae arvana 
in a single whorl, or form a head or spike in the centr Pa the flower. 
25. The terms monogynous, digynous. » olygynous, ete. “vith a pistil of 
one, two, or more parts), are vaeuoly used, lying sometimes to the 
whole pistil, sometimes to the ovaries kioies ¢ or to the pyle or stigmas 
only. re a more precise ssmsbactaanre is adopted, flower is 
oe es when the pistil consists of a single simple carpel. 
bi-, tri-, ete., to poly- pr ce » when the pistil consists of two, three, 
or ~ indefinite RE carpels, whether separated nited, 
arpous, when the carpels or their ovaries are sities or less united 
into saa compound ovary. 
apocarpous, ston the Mod or ovaries are all free and distinct. 
126, A compound ovary i 
unilocular or io Did: when there are no partitions between the 
ovules, or when these partitions o not meet in the centre so as to 
divide the cavity into several cells. 
plurilocu lar or ee when completely divided into two or 
more cells by partitions called dissepiments (septa), usu ually sinter and 
ee the scl or axis of the ovary to its circum 
: pit , ete., Beg | nna gins. according to the number of ioe ‘cells, 
abn 
ete., 
127. In pen the number of cells or of dissepiments, complete or 
partial, or of rows of ovules, corresponds with that of the carpels, of 
Saw ee 
which ch the pistil is i ste each carpel is divided 
completely or partially into two cells, or has two rows of oyules, so that 
Is ars double what it y is. Sometimes again 
the carpels are so completely combined and reduced as to form a single 
cell, with a ire? ovule, although it really consists of several carpels, 
