OF THE STAMENS. 



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LESSON XVI. 



MORE ABOUT THE STAJVIENS. 



106. The careful student will find a great and interesting 

 variety in the number, arrangement, and form of the stamens. 

 In regard to number, as we have already seen, the Lily has 

 six stamens, the Pink has ten, the Speedwell two, the Indian 

 Shot only one. Some flowers have numerous stamens, as the 

 Rose with forty, fifty, or one hundred, and the Cactus with 



179 ISO 



Fig. 179. Stamens and pistils of Mallow ; the filaments (/) are united into a tube 

 sheathing the styles. 



Fig. ISO. Floret of Dandelion,— anthers (a) united into a tube. 



Fig. 181. Corolla of Lophospcrmum, split open to show the four stamens (didyn'i'.- 

 mous) and the one style. 



Fig. 182. Cardamine, — stamens six, tetradyn'amous. 



106. What number of stamens in Pink? Speedwell? Indian Shot? 

 What in the Rose ? Cactus ? Apple ? or in these flowers? Define "stamens 

 definite ;" " stamens indnBuite." 



