NEW CREATIONS IN THE VEGETABIE KINGDOM. 



indulgence of students of botany is 

 craved while a brief account is given of , 

 those organs and of their office. They 

 are of two kinds, one is called "sta- 

 mens " the other " pistils," and are the 

 only essential organs ; when these are 

 present the flower is said to be perfect, 



parts, ovary, style, and stigma. The 

 filament merely supports the anther, in 

 some flowers is very short ; the office of 

 the anther is to produce a quantity of 

 small dust like grains called pollen which 

 are extruded when matured through (Fig. 

 1360 highly magnified pollen grains.) 



jFiG. 1358. — Clematis. (Sample blooms of the new race.) 



though it have neither sepals or petals. 

 Fig- 1359 represents the essential or- 

 gans of a lily ; the organ at the left is 

 the stamen, consisting of two parts, the 

 filament and anther ; the one at the 

 right is the pistil, consisting of three 



openings which then appear in the an- 

 ther. The style serves to connect the 

 stigma with the ovary, in some instances 

 it is wholly wanting, and when present 

 varies in length in different fiowers. 

 The office of the stigma is to receive 



