SECT. III. I LOWER-STALK AND FLOWER. 2/1 



same component parts, which are distributed also in 

 the same manner. 



The Filaments seem to consist merely of a Filaments, 

 parenchyma enveloped by a fine epidermis, without 

 exhibiting any traces of longitudinal threads or 

 fibres, with which however they are said to be 

 occasionally furnished.* In the Tulip the fila- 

 ments are tubular, which is, as I believe, a rare oc- 

 currence. 



The Pistil, like the filaments, appears to consist Pistil, and 

 merely of a parenchyma enveloped by a fine epi- 

 dermis, except on the stigma ; though the longitu- 

 dinal threads or fibres so numerous in the calyx and 

 corolla are said to have been occasionally detected in, 

 it also.-f~ 



In leguminous and liliaceous plants the style is 

 evidently tubular, and has been suspected to be 

 so in all plants whatever. But it would require a 

 much more extensive induction of particulars than 

 has yet been made to enable any one to speak with 

 certainty on the subject. 



The Ovary is at first, like the rest of the pistil, a Ovary, 

 soft and pulpy mass, in which the parts of the con- 

 tained fruit cannot yet be distinguished, nor the 

 fibres by which it is connected with the foot-stalk. 

 But as the germe begins to expand, and to acquire 

 a greater degree of consistence, its parts and 

 mode of attachment are rendered perceptible. In its 

 early state, however, it presents but little to the view 

 * Seneb. Phys. Veg. vol. ii. p. $0. f Ibid p. 84. 



