OUTLINES OF BOTANY. LITI 
But in these cases the ovary is usually described as it appears, as well 
as such as it is theoretically supposed to be. 
128. In apocarpous pistils the esau are usually free, each bearing its 
own stigma. Very rarely the greater part of the styles, or the stigmas 
alone, are united, whilst the ovaries — distinct 
129. Synearpou 
o hay 
several styles, when the styles a palin from the bas 
one style, with several branches, ilies the styles are ad t the 
_ base, but separate below the point where the stigmas or stigmatic teen 
ence. 
e simple style, with several stigmas, when united up to the point 
where he stigmas or stigmatic surfaces commence, and then separating. 
In many works, how , this precise sag ricagunsiec rly is not strictly 
adhered to, and Rigtdecable regaremen is often the result. 
130. In seated the number of styles, or branches of aaj ire le or stigma, is the 
same as that - not carpels, but sometimes that number is a Aen vio, especially 
in the stigm metimes the stigmas are dichoto sly or pinnately 
phon or penicillate that i is, ender into a tuft of hair-like branches. All 
cult task to ) determine the number of 
carpels forming a compound ovary, but the p 
in fixing the re si A es and, by ca careful consideration, the po as 
wa as the a appare er has now in most cases n agr 
The Sy paint is api part of yer inside of the Dhiped to which ti 
ovules are Raproative sometimes a mere point or line on the inner surface 
ofte r less thickened or raised. Place pa is therefore the 
indication of ps part of the ovary to which the ovules are attached. 
. Placentas are 
rile, when the ig are attached to the axis or centre, that is 
plurilocular 0 varies, W. they are attached to the inner angle of sich 
eell; in unilocular Saale ene which have almost always an excentrical 
style or ver wages when the ovules are attached to the side of the ov: 
nearest to the style; in unilocular compound beigsoagete ig the pale hd 
are attached to a central protuberance, colum ing up from 
the base of the savity, If ~ column cag Y esas the top of the 
cavity, the placenta is said to be free and central. 
parietal, when the ite are attached to the inner surface of the 
cavity of a one-celled compound ovary. Parietal placentas are usually 
slightly thickened or ange Hines SRR broad surfaces nearly covering 
the inner surface of the cavity, 5 metimes projecting far into the cavity, 
an nstitu 
Each Ovule (121), when fully formed, usually consists of a central 
ai ‘or nue cleus , enclosed in two bag- Jike conte the oute € 
primine, the inner one secundine. The chalaza is the point of the ovule 
a ic 
is a minute — in the coats over the apex of the nucleu 
134. 
rthot copes. or straight, when the chalaza coincides with the base 
(36) of the ovule, and the foramen is at the opposite extremity, the axis 
of the ovule Tine straight. 
