FLOWER-LAND. 



CHAPTER XXI. 



FLOWERS. THE PISTIL. 



Now I am going to tell you 

 something more about the 

 pistil* Here is a picture of 

 one, and you shall tell me 

 what you know about it al- 

 ready (Fig. 97). Yes. it is 

 made of a floral leaf (or 

 leaves), which is so curled, or 

 folded, as to form a bag, the 

 upper end of the leaf being 

 sometimes lengthened out 

 above the bag, as in the 

 picture, but it is not always 

 so. Now, the floral leaf of a 

 pistil is called a carpel-leaf 

 or carpel.\ The bag which 

 Fig. 96. Hyacinth, c showing j t f orms contains one or 



more little things which are 



Ig - 



ovules in trilocular ovary of its 

 syncarpous pistil. 



* From the Latin "pistilhtm" a pestle, to pound with in a mortar. 

 f From the Greek " karpos" fruit. So called because it is connected 

 with the fruit, which you will learn more about presently. 



