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FLOWER- LAND. 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



FOR M A T I O N OF SEED. 



WE will begin by looking 

 for a plant in full bloom 

 and picking one of its 

 flowers. A primrose, gar- 

 den lily, or sojue other 

 flower in whiqjn we can 

 easily see the ^pistil with 

 its ovary, and' style, and 

 stigma. Is it not strange ? 

 The stigma and style have 

 a channel or passage 

 through them, something 

 like there is through the 

 stem of a piece of elder 

 where the pith is ; but 

 sometimes the channel is 



Fig. 108. Flower and fruit of jt hollow as in the 

 Capsicum, a, fruit cut open length- 

 ways (longitudinal section) showing stem of a tobacco pipe, 

 seeds ; b, the same cut across (trans- 

 verse section). This channel leads into 



the ovary just as that of a pipe stem does into the 

 pipe bowl. 



