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When the pillar is composed of two or more 

 shafts, attached to separate treasury-cells, 

 each cell with its shaft is called a Carpel . 261 



VII. The Stamens.— The parts of the flower 

 which secrete its pollen 88 



They consist usually of two parts, the Fila- 

 ment and ANTHER, not yet described. 



VIII. The Nectary. — The part of the flower 

 containing its honey, or any other special 

 product of its inflorescence. The name 

 has often been given to certain forms 

 of petals of which the use is not yet 

 known. No notice has yet been taken 

 of this part of the flower in Proserpina. 



These being all the essential parts of the flower 

 itself, other forms and substances are developed 

 in the seed as it ripens, which, I believe, may 

 most conveniently be arranged in a separate 

 section, though not logically to be considered as 

 separable from the flower, but only as mature 

 states of certain parts of it. 



V. The Seed. 



I must once more desire the reader to take 

 notice that, under the four sections already defined, 

 the morphology of the plant is to be considered 

 as complete, and that we are now only to examine 



