38 FIRST YEAR COURSE IN GENERAL SCIENCE 



DIRECTIONS FOR WORK: Examine the whole flower and 

 write fully the answers to the following questions: 



(1) What is the color of the outermost part of the flower? 



(2) (a) Of how many parts or -sepals is it composed? 

 (b) Are they joined together? 



(3) In what respects are the sepals similar? 



(4) What is the color of the next circle of parts of the 

 flower? 



(5) (a) Of how many parts or petals is it composed? 

 (b) Are they entirely separate? 



(6) In what respects are the petals alike? 



(7) Are any parts of the flower, besides the sepals and 

 petals, visible? If so, where are they? 



(8) Carefully pull off the sepals and the petals, one at a 

 time; examine them and lay them down on your paper. 

 Make a drawing of one of each. 



(9) How many yellow or brown bodies, anthers, do you 

 find attached to delicate stems, stamens, near the middle of 

 the flower? 



(10) Pull off these stamens. Prick open one of the anthers. 

 What do you find in it? 



(11) How many organs now remain? Describe the pistil, 

 which is left in the center of the flower. 



(12) Cut across this last organ at its largest place. De- 

 scribe what you find inside. 



EXERCISE XXX (Textbook 316) 

 STUDY OF A SEED 



MATERIALS: A dry bean; one that has been soaked in 

 water 24 hours; one that has been on moist paper or moss 

 for a few days; a bean plant having several leaves; a dried 

 or fresh pod containing beans. 



