FLOWERS THE PISTIL. US 



called "ovules"* or little eggs, and so it is called an 

 ovary* i.e., an egg bag (Figs. 97 <:, 96*:). We shall 

 look for these ovules, and learn more about them 

 presently. I must now tell you that the tip of the 

 carpel is called the stigma.^ (Fig. 97 a.) It is some- 

 times a simple point, or it may be knobbed or divided 

 in various ways. Then sometimes, as in the picture, 

 the stigma is removed to some distance from the ovary ; 

 the top of the carpel being more or less lengthened out 

 into a kind of pillar. This lengthened out 

 portion of the carpel is therefore called 

 the style ; J and the carpel or pistil leaf 

 has three parts, the ovary, and style, and 

 stigma (Fig. 97). 



Sometimes, however, the carpel is not 

 lengthened out ; there is no style, but 

 a stigma. only the ovary and its stigma. You can 

 see such a carpel or pistil leaf if you look at a 

 buttercup flower, from which the calyx and corolla 

 have faded away, and examine one of its separate 

 pistil bags (p. 9). Each one is a carpel ; consisting 

 of an ovary and stigma, but without a style. (Fig. 

 23, p. 27.) 



But now I will tell you about the different kinds of 

 pistils. 



* From the Latin " ovum, " an egg. 



f From the Greek " stigo" I prick ; stigma, a prick of a pointed in- 

 strument, generally a mark or spot. 



From the Greek " stulos" a pillar. 



There are some few flowering plants in which the ovules are not 

 enclosed in an ovary with a stigma. These plants are placed in a class 

 by themselves, and you will learn more about them in due time. 



