FLOWER CALYX, COROLLA, AND STAMENS. 1 07 



seed, by which the pi ant is reproduced (p. 63). Can 

 you tell me what the stem of a leaf is called ? 

 (p. 89). Just as the stem of a leaf has a special 

 name to distinguish it from the stem of the plant, so 

 also the stalk of a flower has a special name. It is 

 called the peduncle.* The stem (caulis) of a plant, 

 the petiole of a leaf, the peduncle of a flower. But 

 when the flower stalk is radical, that is, grows up 

 from the stem base, with no leaves or only a few small 

 bracts and bearing the flower or flowers at its upper 

 end, it is called a scape.\ (Fig. 86,) 



Now look for a buttercup flower, and show me its 

 different parts, telling me their names (Ch. II. and III.). 

 Yes : and the top of the flower-stalk, from which these 

 parts of the flower grow. It is often a good deal ex- 

 panded or raised, and is called the receptacle or torus.\ 

 Gather a few flowers, and pull off their parts to see 

 some different forms of the receptacle. There is a 

 picture of the buttercup flower, with calyx, corolla, and 

 stamens pulled off, in Fig. 176. (cf. Figs. 98 t, ioo) 



But I will now tell you something more about 

 these parts of a flower the calyx, corolla, stamens, 

 and pistil : and first about the corolla and the 

 calyx. || In the buttercup, you see, the corolla is made 



* From the Latin "/," a foot. If smaller flower stalks branch oft" 

 from the peduncle or main flower stalk they are called "pedicels" 

 from the Latin " flediculus," a little foot, stalk, or stem. 



t From the Latin " scapiis" the upright stalk, the shank of a candle- 

 stick, or shaft of a pillar. 



J From the Latin "torus " a couch, cf. thalamus in the Appendix. 



From the Latin " corolla" a little crown or garland. 



ii From the Latin "calyx" , from the Greek . " kalux, kalupto" 

 I cover. 



