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THE SECOND BOOK OF BOTANY. 



with the outermost of these at the right, you see a 

 scale called the outer palet. Does the outer palet, 



FIG. 338. 



Inner Palet. 



Upper Glume. 



Pistil. 



Stamens. 



_, Lodicules. 



Outer Palet. 



Lower Glume. 



FIG. 339. 



in the specimen you are studying, terminate in a 



bristle ? 



At the right you see a pecul- 

 iar scale, folded at the sides, and 

 called & palet. Then come the scales. 

 Look carefully at your flower for 

 these minute bodies, which are 

 thought to be a sort of perianth, the 

 outer and inner scales being of the 

 nature of bracts. "We next come 

 upon the stamens, with their versa- 

 tile anthers, and the pistil, with its 

 plumose stigmas the unmistakable 

 flower. The peculiar features of this 

 inflorescence, then, are 



