THE FLOWER 



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When the floral leaves first appear in connection with 

 the sporophylls they are inconspicuous, scale-like bodies. 

 In higher forms they become more prominent and inclose 



Fig. 196. Naked flowers of dif- 

 ferent willows (Salix), each 

 from the axil of a bract : 

 a, b, c, staminate flowers ; 

 d, e, /, pistillate flowers, the 

 pistil composed of two car- 

 pels (syncarpous). — After 

 Warming, 



Fig. 195. Lizard's tail (SawrMn/s): ^, tip of branch yiq. 197. Flower of calamus 



bearing leaves and elongated cluster of flowers; 



B, a single naked flower from A, showing sta- 

 mens and four spreading and stigmatic styles; 



C, flower from another species, showing sub- 

 tending bract, absence of floral leaves, seven 

 stamens, and a syncarpous pistil ; the flowers 

 naked and perfect.— After Englbr. 



(Acori/s), showing simple 

 perianth, stamens, and syn- 

 carpous pistil: a hypogynous 

 flower without differentiation 

 of calyx and corolla.— After 

 Engler. 



