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bell-flower there are five, ia the tulip six — 

 aad in some others they are too numerous to 

 be counted. The stamens suiTouiiil tlie pis- 

 til — so called from the Latin word pisfi/lum, a 

 Ut/le pi 1/(1 r or column, or, by a more homely 

 inteii:)ret,aiion, a pestle : look at the pistil in 

 the Hower of the lily ; at the lower extremity, 

 where attached to the flower, is a thickish, 

 green body, called the germen, or ovary, 

 h-oni cDHtainiiig tVie rudiments of the seeds ; 

 the long, wire-like part in which this tereiin- 

 ates is called the style, and the knob at the 



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extremity' of the st)"le is named the stigma 

 Look at the pistil of the tulip ; ui that the 

 germen is long and three-sided, bearing the 

 cui-iously three-parted stigma on its summit, 

 and thc! style is wanting. The pistil is m)t 

 always solitary ; in many flowers there are 

 two, three, or more together; and they ai'e 

 frequently veiy numerous, as in the common 

 buttercup, where the many little green, pouit- 

 ed grains in the center of the flower ai"e so 

 many pistils. See fig. 1 : a the calyx ; b iha 

 corolla ; c the stamens ; d the pistils. 

 1. 



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STRUCTURE OF FLOWERS. 



m most of the higher orders of plants, all [ lyx, and in many the stamens and pistils oc- 

 ofthese parts are present in the perfect flower; cupy distinct flowers — all very important 

 and sometimes other appendages, of which chiU'acters in distinguishhig one family of 

 we may speak hereafter; but in some there plants from another, and especially deseiving 

 is no corolla, in others neither corolla nor ca- I of the attention of the cultivator 



DIFFERENT FORMS OF THE ANTHKIl 



Of all the parts or organs of the flower, the I when vei-y slender to a thread of hair, is fre- 

 stamens and pistils are the most oss'-ntial. i (|uently absent, the colored tip being attached 

 The stamen is a very curious l)ody ; the lower to ihe corolla or some otlier j>art of lUr (lowiM- ; 

 part, calicd the_/!7ffwf?t/, from its resemblance I tli s tip, denominated the anther, is a little 



