144 



BOTANY. 



But let us return to the florets. We have not yet ex- 

 amined their essential organs. Just below the stigma, in 

 the disk floret (Fig. 425), is a cylindrical body, which, at 

 first, you may not understand. Slit it down, flatten it out, 

 and examine it with your glass. Is not this cylinder com- 

 posed of slender coherent anthers ? Do you not see each 

 anther with its filament, as shown in Fig. 427, and which 

 represents the tube seen in Fig. 428, thus laid open ? The 

 stamens of this floret are syngenesious. 



The following is a schedule of the and ? florets of 

 the marigold : 



SCHEDULE FOURTEENTH. 



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

 seem to be five-merous, and we put the number of sepals as five. 



