« 



How I'LANTS (iHOW, 



S'^g- 



v«j i(>. The Pistils fire the iKxlics in wliich tlio soods are foniiod. Tliey 



^ )»ol(in<.' ill the (M'litiT of tlu' flower. Tlio Moriiiiif^-fJloi'V li.is only one 

 liistil : tills is shown cnlarfrcd in Fi^j. S. The liosc and the IJuttercnp 

 liavo a gicfit many. A jiistil has three parts. At the hottoni is tlie 

 (>rn)'i/, which heconies tlie seed-vessel. This is proloiiijed uj>wartis into 

 u slender IhhIv, called the S/i/lr, And this bears a moist, <,'enerally some- 

 wliat enlai'i.'cd ^rtion, with a naki-d roiiLdiish surface (not Imvinj? any 

 skill, like tlio n>t), called the S/i'ftiKi. Tpon this stiirma some of the 

 pollen, or ])owder from the anthei-s, falls and sticks fast. Ami this some- 

 how eiiahles the ]>islils to ripen seeds that will (jrow. 



! 7. Let ns now look at a stamen and a jiistil from one 

 of the Mowers of a Lily (like tliose shown on a reduced 

 scale in Ki;Lr"r»'s i and 2, on the first Jiaije), where all the 

 ])arts are on a lai-^'er scale, Here is a t^laiin'H (Fifj. 9), with 

 its stalk or FlhDii- nf, i\ aiui its Aiiflic)', r^ discharijin;,' its yellow 

 dtist or Piillfii. Ami hy its side is the Pixlil (V"v^. 10), 

 with its Ornri/, "/•. ; and this taperini; into a Shili\ ft. ', 

 anil on the to}» of this is the Sfif^iini, s/i</. Now cut 

 the o\ary throiiuh, and it will I:e found to contai?! youn<jf 

 seeds. Fii^. 11 shows the ovary of Fi<,'. 10 cut tliroui.di 

 leiijU'l li\\ ise and mairnified by a common hand ma_irnif_vin<(- 

 ^dass. Fiir. I- i^ the lower j)art of aiiothei' one, cut in 

 two crosswise. The Aounir seeds, or moie cori'ectlv the 

 hodii's ^\l^i(•h ;iie to l.-eeomo seeds, are nameil ()ruli'<. Jn tlie Jjily these 

 are \eiv nuiiicious. hi the Morninir < 'loi'V they are few. oids' six. 



1 S. 'I hese are all the ]»aits of the flower — all that any flower has. 

 r>ut luaiiv llowcrs have not all these ])arts. Some have only one flower 

 cu[)or om> set vX l;l(;ssom leaves. Lilies appear to have only one set. Son:e 

 have neither calvx norcoiolla ; some stamens have no filament, and some 

 jiistils have no style; for the style and the filament are not necessary 

 ]>arts, as the anther and the o\aiy and sti<;ma are. These cases will all 

 be noticed when we come to study flowers more particularly. Mean- 

 Mhile, please t(^ commit to memory the names of the parts of the flower, 

 Calyx, Corolla, Stamens, and Pistils, and the parts of these also, and 

 learn to distinguish them in all the common blossoms you meet with, 

 until tliey are as familiar as loot, stem, and leaves are to everybody. 



i^^ 



