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in the technical terms of Botanists called dicecious ; 

 that is to say, those which contain the ovary and 

 stigma grow on one plant, and those with the stamens 

 grow on another plant. I must speak to you of these 

 two separately. 



The flowers with stamens {Plate XXX. 2. f(j. 1.) 

 have a green cupped calyx, with five little teeth {jig. 1 . 

 a. a.), and a light-green strongly veined corolla of five 

 petals, forming part with the calyx so completely, that 

 the whole has the appearance of one five-lobed calyx. 

 The stamens are five in number ( fir/. 4.), they have no 

 filament, but consist of a fleshy, lobed, or sinuous con- 

 nective (Jig. 4. b.), bordered by the narrow pollen- 

 bearing cells of the anther, which are separated from 

 the connective by a glittering row of little prominent 

 glands, placed like a fairy necklace. Ovary there is 

 none. 



The flowers with a pistil, so far as the calyx and 

 corolla are concerned, are like those containing the 

 stamens, only smaller, and in closer clusters, with 

 shorter stalks (Jig. 2.). They do not contain a trace 

 of stamens, but have an inferior, dark green, round, 

 ovary (Jig. C. a.), ending in a short, stifl", round stvle, 

 divided into three cushion-shaped stigmas (Jig. 6. d.). 

 When opened, the ovary contains some ovules, attached 

 in double rows to three parietal placentae (see p. 39), 

 and is nearly filled up by a firm fleshy substance (Jig. 

 7.). The fruit becomes a round, scarlet, pulpy berry 

 (Jig. 3.), containing two or three flat, brown, hard 

 seeds (Jig. 8. 9.)- 



If you compare what has now been described with 



