THE INFLORESCENCE AND FLOWER. 35 



oped flowers. Meadow-lilies are good examples. Sta- 

 mens differ very much in form and proportions in 

 different species of plants, but usually they consist of 

 three parts, shown in Fig. 116. Find the filament and 

 anther in your living specimens. Observe whether any 

 of the anthers are shedding their pollen. As soon as you 

 know just what parts of stamens are meant by these 

 words, write them down in the third place of your sched- 

 ule under " stamens." Count the stamens (when there 

 are less than twelve) in each of your flowers, and write 

 the number opposite, as you see done in the book. If a 

 flower have more than twelve stamens, make the symbol 

 oo, which means many. 



As soon as you can point out and name the parts of 

 stamens, begin the study of the pistil. Its parts are shown 



--Stigma. 



-Style. 



Ovary. 



FIG. 117. 



FIG. 119. 

 Four Carpels. 



in Figs. 117, 118, 119, The ovary is at the bottom; the 

 stigma at the top ; and the style in the middle. If you cut 

 across the swollen ovary, you will find it full of little round 

 bodies that will grow and become seeds. Watch the ovary 

 as flowers fade and disappear ; look for old, faded flowers, 

 and in them examine it. But you are not to write '" ovary " 

 in the schedule, for the ovary is made up of parts which 

 you are to find, if you can, and count, and put down their 



