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FLOWER-LAND. 



have ever looked for 

 these palms or willows 

 for use upon Palm Sun- 

 day, you always like to 

 -f find those with the sta- 

 men bearing flowers. 

 F - LM Very fine are their full 



rig. 105. Mowers of the Hop * 



(Humnlus lupulus). A, stameni- oval catkins, bright with 



ferous flower ; />, perianth ; #, sta- 

 mens ; B, pistiliferous flowers ; s, their beautiful yellow 

 stipule scale ; d, bract ; f>, perianth ; s , t - ampT1< , , hnf - harrHv IPQQ 

 /, pistil bag with two long tips or SCan DuC naicl ly JCSS 



ends (") beautiful, I think, though 



not so imposing, are the trees with their pistil 

 bearing flowers : smaller but bright and glossy as 

 the finest silk. 



Before we pass on to the formation of seed and 

 fruit, I must tell you something about the "inflo- 

 rescence " ,* that is, the way in which flowers are 

 arranged upon their stalk or axis. 



The inflorescence is called a spike when the flowers 

 are sessile (or on very short pedicels) and are 

 arranged more or less closely along the more or less 

 lengthened floral axis (p. 65), as in the common 

 plantains (Plantago). This is called a spadix f when 

 the axis is thick and fleshy, and generally with a 

 spathe (p. 101), as in the common arum (Fig. 153). 



* From the Latin "/'," and " floresco " (ftoreo), I bloom. 



t From the Greek " spadix" a palm branch; in which the spathe, 

 which is generally with it, is well been. 



