74 



ELEMENTS OF STIM'i Tl K A I. I ;T ANY. 



one of these from the rest and cut it across. It will ho 

 found to contain several ovules, and 

 is, in fact, an ovary, the point at the 

 top being a stigma. In the autumn 

 a great change will li;i\<- taken 

 place in the appearance of plants 

 like the one we are now examining, 

 The arched hood will have dis- 

 appeared, as also the long n, 

 top of the column, whilst the part 

 below, upon which we are now en- 

 gaged, will have vastly increased in 

 size, and become a compact ball of 

 red berries. There can be no doubt, 

 then, that we have 

 here a structure anal- 

 ogous to that found 

 in the Cucumber and 



the Willow, the fertile, or pistillate, 

 flowers being clustered together separate- 

 ly. But in the Cucumber all the flowers 

 were observed to be furnished with calyx 

 and corolla, and in the Willow catkins, 

 though floral envelopes were absent, each 

 pair of stamens and each pistil was sub- 

 tended by a bract. In the present plant 

 there are no floral envelopes, nor does 

 each pistil arise from a separate bract. 



95. But, you will now ask, what is this sheathing 

 hood which we 'find wrapped about our column of pi 



I i-. ;)5. Spathe of Indian Turnip. 

 Fig. 90. Fertile spaclix of the same. I i u . 



Fig. 95. 



Fig. 96. Fi . 



