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separate parts, these are called /r/rt/.v. Within the corolla and next to thu petals 

 we find the male organs of fructification, these are called sfameiis. They consist 

 of two parts, the stalk, which is often very slender and thread-like, and is called 

 the Ji/ame/if, and the anther, which is borne on the top of the filament, and is 

 the organ which produces the fine, powdery substance called /rV/cv/. Within 

 the stamens and surrounded by them are the female organs of fructification, 

 called //V//7-V A [)istil is formed of three parts, the bottom part is called the 

 ovary, within which the seed is formed ; the middle portion, which is usually 

 prolonged and slender, is called the style, and upon the top of this style there is 

 usually an enlargement called the stigma. Sometimes there is no apparent 

 enlargement, yet the upper part of the style will have the same moist, naked, 

 rough, stigmatic surface as when enlarged. By naked is meant that there is no 

 membrane covering the surface, as exists on all the other surfaces of the plant. 

 It is purposely naked and moist in order that the pollen grains falling upon it 

 may stick fast, from each of which a slender tube pushes out, and thus can 

 penetrate without obstruction the stigma and style, and enter the ovary. In 

 this flower there are numerous stamens, each having both filament and anther : 

 there are also many pistils, of which the ovaries are the most conspicuous part, 

 the other portions seemingly a mere point. The petals are yellow, the interior 

 surface looking as if varnished, obovate in form, that is, inversely ovaL having the 

 narrower end at the bottom. 



It will be important that those 

 readers who are not familiar with the 

 names of the different parts of flow- 

 ers should carefully familiarize them- 

 selves with them as above described, 

 as in future it will be taken for 

 granted that the reader knows what 

 is meant by these terms. 



To sum up then what has been 

 said about this plant, we find that 

 it grows to the height of from two 

 to three feet, that it is hairy, the 

 leaves divided into three parts, each 

 of which is again divided into three 

 irregularly cut and notched lobes, 

 that the petiole is furrowed on the 

 upper side, while \\\c peduncle is not 

 furrowed : the flowers are boine 

 singly on a long, branched stalk at 

 the end of the branches, and have 

 \\\Q sepals and five petals, numerous 

 stamens (they are more than ten). 

 V^ii. 9J(. I'vAMxei-Lcs Acms (Kali Uuttfrcup). and numerous />/.v///.v : that the corolla 



