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THE SECOND BOOK OF BOTANY. 



it down, flatten it out, and examine it with your 

 glass. Is not this cylinder composed of slender co- 

 herent anthers ? Do you not see each anther with its 

 filament, as shown in Fig. 303, which represents the 

 tube seen in Fig. 304, thus laid open ? The stamens 

 of this floret are syngeneseous. 



The following is a schedule of the and ? 

 florets of the marigold : 



SCHEDULE EIGHTH. 



* As the corolla is five-lobed, and there are five stamens, 

 the florets seem to be five-merous, and we put the number of 

 Is as five. 



