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from the ovary through the perianth-tube (Fig. XX, 4, 

 page 130) and at the top of the tube divides into 

 three petal-like branches commonly referred to as 

 "style-branches" or "stylar branches" (Fig. XX, 8, 

 page 130 and Fig. LV). These branches are some- 

 times referred to as " stigmas" but " stigma", in the 

 narrowest sense, means only the stigmatic surface of 

 a style-branch (Fig. XX, 9, page 130 and Fig. LVI, st). 

 In a few varieties as, Eldorado (Fig. XX, 8, page 

 130) these style-branches are so conspicuous from 

 their size and color as to give the flower the appear- 

 ance of being semi-double. See further, about pistil, 

 under Stamen in this chapter, Process of Pollination 

 in Chapter X. 



STAMEN. As just stated, the flower has, in the 

 usual sense, but one pistil (compound), but it has 

 three stamens each consisting of filament and anther 

 (Fig. XX, 6 and 7, page 130) and it is this fact 

 that is referred to in "The Botanic Garden": 



The freckled Iris owns a fiercer flame 



And three unjealous husbands wed the dame. 



Darwin: Loves of the Flowers. 



The arrangement of the pistil and stamens, for 

 cross-pollination, is one of the most wonderful in the 



