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phroditus), when both the sexual parts are contained in the 

 same cover, and for these last we employ the sign ^. A 

 plant is called androgynous (androg?/7ius), when the male 

 and female parts are separated from one another, but grow 

 upon the same common stalk, in the same ear, in the same 

 bunch, and so on. 



A plant, again, is called mmioscms, whicli contains male 

 and female flowers separated from one another, but upon the 

 same plant ; it is called dio^cius, when the separate sexual or- 

 gans appear upon different plants; and, lastly, it is called 

 polijgamus^ when sometimes male, sometimes female, and 

 sometimes hermaphrodite blossoms appear. 



104. 



As the female parts appear first, we must begin our account 

 with them. 



The Germen (germen, ovarium), is the rudiment of the fu- 

 ture fruit. It is distinguished into the Simple and Com- 

 pound. In the Cherry, for example, the germen is simple ; 

 in Sage, it is made up of four compartments. In the germen 

 we discover the beginnings of the future seed, like small eggs 

 (ovula), which are frequently more numerous than die per- 

 fect seed. 



105. 



The germen rests upon the bottom of the calyx, or it is 

 supported by a fruit-stalk. From this, or from the calyx, 

 there often arises a fleshy elevated support, which is called, in 

 general, gynobasis, (Tab. III. Fig. 17.) ; and when this sup- 

 port, during the ripening of the fruit, swells powerfully, it is 

 called sarcohasis ; (Tab. I. Fig. 36.) To this belongs tlie 

 juicy swelling of the receptacle in the Strawberry, and the 

 related Genera; (Tab. III. Fig. 22.) In the umbelliferous 

 plants, Hoffman calls this part stylopodii^i, 



106. 



The pistil (pistilhim, stylus), is the part which proceeds 

 upwards from the germen, or it is the prolongation of this 



