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an imperceptible aperture, through which it 

 receives the pollen, ajid conveys it to the ovule 

 or germ. It is necessary to observe the number 

 of styles ; whether they are cohesive or separate, 

 whether they rise from the calyx or from the 

 receptacle, whether they are smooth, cottonous, 

 hairy, or bristly ; whether they are permanent 

 after flowering, or perishable with or soon after 

 the petals. 



THE OVULES OR GERMS. These consist in 

 the germen of the seeds, contained in the peri- 

 carp, or seed-vessel. The number of ovules is 

 to be noticed, and their pubescence; whether 

 they are smooth or hairy. 



THE CALYX. The calyx, as denned by 

 Lindley and other botanists, consists in the 

 tube, a fleshy organ, round or oval, placed im- 

 mediately under the flower, and forming at 

 maturity the fruit ; of the disk, a fleshy ring to 

 which the stamens and pistils are attached ; of 

 the sepals, or calyxinal leaflets, which sur- 

 round the petals. 



The tube may be round or oval ; cylindrical, 

 fusiform, or distaff-shaped ; turbinated, or top- 

 shaped; pyriform, or pear-shaped; pisiform, or 

 pea-shaped ; strangled, or small in the centre, 

 swelling above and below ; compressed, or flat- 

 tened at the sides ; depressed, or flattened at 

 the top and bottom. 



It may be smooth or hairy, woolly, cottonous, 



