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But some flowers are incomplete. For you will 

 remember, I think, that some flowers instead of 

 having both calyx and corolla, have only one of 

 them. Well, some have neither calyx nor corolla ; 

 no perianth at all.* 



They vary also with regard to their stamens and 

 pistil. You will not always find both stamens 

 and pistil in the same flower. Can we find, for 

 instance, the common hazel or nut bush ? The long 

 yellow catkins, which children call pussy cats' tails, 

 and which I expect you know very well, are com- 

 posed of stameniferous | flowers, that is, flowers 

 which have only stamens. Shake them when the) 7 

 are ripe and you see quite a little cloud of their 

 yellow pollen. In Fig. 104 A there is a picture of 

 one of the flowers from one of these catkins of the 

 hazel ; you see that it has stamens only. You can see 

 the whole catkin in Fig. 103. And now if you look 

 carefully along the branches you will see some things 

 like buds from which beautiful and delicate pink 

 points are appearing They are the tips of the pistils, 

 of the pistiliferoiis \ flowers, projecting from the 

 scales by which the flowers are surrounded. See 

 Fig. 104 B C, and again, in Fig. 103 at the top of 

 the branch marked a. 



* cf. monochlamydeous in the Appendix. 



t From the Latin "fero" I bear, and stamens. 



J Flowers which have a pi-til only, from Latin " fero," I bear, and 

 pistil, cf, JiermapJirodite in the Appendix. 



