OF THE STAMENS. 



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LESSON XVI. 



MORE ABOUT THE STAMENS. 



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 

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



179 i«o 



Fig. 179. Stamens and pistils of Mallow; th€! filaments (/) are united into a tutnj 

 sheathing the styles. 



Fig. 180. Floret of Dandelion,— anthers (a) united into a tube. 



Fig. 181. Corolla of Lop hospennuni, split open to show the four stamens (didyn'a- 

 noas) and the one style. 



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



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

 Wliat in the Rose ? Cactus ? Apple ? or in these flowers ? Define " sLaniena 

 definite ;" " stamens indefinite," 



