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1297. There must always be as many styles as the 

 ovary has carpels or cells. If only one style appear, in 

 this case it is then made up of several mid-ribs. In 

 most instances the number of styles is recognized in the 

 number of the stigmata. 



1298. As being the rib of the ovary the style is the 

 last ramuscular extremity of the stalk, which is resolved 

 into mucus upon the stigma. 



1299. Stamen-filament is related to style, as leaf to 

 stalk, thus as air to earth, as Differencing to Difier- 

 encizable, as electrism to chemism or rather nutrition. 

 This is the lower comparison ; in a true sense they are 

 related as light to heat. 



1300. The light is the Active, the heat the Passive; 

 light the Moving, heat the Moveable ; light the Vitaliz- 

 ing, heat the Inactive, or that which becomes vitalized ; 

 light the spirit, heat the matter male and female 

 principle. Thus are corolla and pistil related to each 

 other. 



3. SEED. 



1301. The root repeats itself in the interior of the 

 ovary under the sether-form. The root ascends out of 

 the earth to become an organ of gravity. 



1302. After the leaves have been made independent 

 in the corolla, and the stalk in the pistil, the root also 

 separates and appears as a free organ, as Seed. 



1303. The seeds are necessarily in the interior of the 

 ovary ; for the cellular organ can first appear, after the 

 leaf- and stalk-buds have opened as corolla and ovarium. 

 The blossom is a bulb, the external testa or covering of 

 which is the leaf-, the mediate the stalk-, and lastly, the 

 internal the root-vesicle. The stalk is adherent to the 

 leaves, the root to the stalk ; so also the seeds to the 

 ovary, and this to the corolla. 



1304. The seeds are developed in the ovary under 

 the same relations in which the root is developed in the 

 earth, namely, in the dark. 



1305. The darkness does not allow the chemical body 



