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214. Stamens united m-o also connnon. 'lilt V may Im* niiitod l>y tlioir tilaiiH'iifs 

 or by tht'ir uuthcrs, Jn tin' ( anliiial-llowcr ( I''i^'. 1.S4), aixi otlu-r Loin-lias, Ix.th 

 the anthers (a) iind tho filaiin'iits (/) aiv iinitrd into a 

 tube. So also in tho rimij»i<iii and S((iiasii iJotanists 

 use the following' tcnns to t-xprrss (hr dilVnciit ways 

 in which stunn'iis may lie connected. 'I lu-v ait' 



tSi/ri'j'Nfsious, when liii' anth«'rs ar»' united into a ) \u<^ 

 or.tidie, as iu Lobelia (Vi<^. 1S4 ro, and in tiie Sun- 

 flower, and all that family. 



M()/iai/''/i,/,iin.i {i.r., in ono brotherhood), 

 when tlu (ilaments are united all into one 

 setortule, as in Lol.elia (Vi;^. 1 S4 /), and 



the Mallow Family (I* 



•AT. 



i.Ss) : al>o in 



IHI. I...li.'ll;i. 



Pasf-ioii-tiowcrs and Ln|'iiies ( Fi;,', 187). 



Didih li,lii,ii.< (in two liiotherhoods^ when the (ilaments are luiited 

 in two sets. l'i<.(. i,S6 shows this in the IVa, and tho like, \\here 

 nine stati ens are ('ond»ine(l in one .^et and 

 one stamen is left for the other. 



'/'/'/(('/r/ji/iii/i.-i 'in thre»; bi-otherhoods^, 

 when the lilanu'nts are united or colleeted 

 in three sets, as in the Common St. John's-wort or 

 Ilypericu"- (Fiij. 297); .-ind 



Pohjailc as (in many brotherhoods), when combined 

 in more than three .sets, as in some St. John's-worts. 



183. >r;illo\v. 



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Pistils united aic 



very common. Two, three, foui', 



isil 



ih; 



or more grow togethei- at the time of their foi-mation, 

 and nnike a C(jiH/)iin//if l'i.<tiL indeed, wherever there 



is a single pistil t) a llouer, it is much oftent'r a compound pistil than a simple 

 one. But, of cour.se, when tlu^ pistils of a flower are more than one, they are 

 all simple. Pistils may b'o united in every degree, and by their ovai-ies only, by 

 their styles only (as they are slightly in Prickly-Ash), or even by their stigmas 

 only (as in Milkweeds), or by all three. Ihit more connncmly the ovaries aie 

 united into one Coinpouml Orar>/, while the styles or stigmas are partly separate 

 or distinct. Three degi-ees of union are shown i»i these figures. Fig. 188, two 

 pistils of a Saxifrage, their ovaries united only i)art way up (cut across both 



