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12 INTRODUCTORY. 
tube ig. 161). When the ear te irregularly united, a 2-ipped 
or dalnate corolla is ergea: (Fi 
e stamens and pistils a ars ao areriaentty united. When 
mens uve by their filaments so as to a tube, they are monly 
(i.e. forming one brot ethane) as in 7 the Mallow Fam mily (Fig. 4 
or ue as in the Pulse Family (Fig. 73), they y ate in two sets, the ey 
are siadslishuacs, (i.e. in two brotherhoods). ‘I'he union into three or mer 
parcels is expressed by the terms triadelphous and Py yadelphous. 
large vempas ts: Bamily, the union takes place by the anthers, eo 
they are syngen 
Al. The eats, poet oftener united than haggis so see what ap- 
Sah i se a i Lgends is frequently made up of several u 
The ma e place by the ovaries an the styles penne 
aa f ned ee or it may be so co mplete that the iim: nature of 
the pistil can only be discovered by cutting it across, thr ough the united 
ovaries, which will generally present as many cells or cavities as there 
ni 
sight rather obscure. When the calyx, corolla and stamens are all free 
from each other evidently inserted below the pistils, they are 
hypogynous (i. e. un pistil), as in Fig. 4. When calyx, corolla 
and stamens cohere together, but are still ay from the pistil, so that the 
latter two appear to be inserted on the former, they are perigynous, (i. e., 
around the pistil,) as in the ee and Cherry (Fig. 80). The union 
often involves be: ovary ; in this case, the stamens and corolla appear to 
on the Mea Bigg te" but the union is sometimes so 
caeiete that the ae 0 be inserted directly aps the ovary, 
— they are said to ge pp ; (i. e., upon the These 
terms are not so much used as form rmerly, as the ce of the e parts is 
better expressed by saying, calyx half Siherent or entirely adherent to 
the ovary, as the case be. 
43. The symmetry of the flower (Fig. 38) is broken oP either by the 
species or nondevelopment of some parts of a r by the multi- 
on 
op. 
pica the parts: but as one or more series ei Ades the, nor- 
se 
over the wages between the petals and consequently ites the sea 
his is to be idered the usual position, unless otherwise 
i, in the deserjption of the plant. Exceptions, however, occur, as 
ne Buckthorn and erry, W 
ie pe age 
where the stamens a are placed directly 2 
