G FRUCTIFICATION. 



The Pistil is a slender column crowned witli 

 its capital, standing in the very centre of the 

 flower, fig. 3. 



The Pericarp is the substance out of which 

 the pistil proceeds, and in which the seeds are 

 contained, figs. 4, 5. 



The Receptacle is the base upon which all 

 the other parts of fructification rest. 



Finally, the Seeds for the forming, protect- 

 ing, and perfecting of which the whole process of 

 fructification is designed, are the Rudiments of 

 new Plants, fig. 6. 



Each of these parts of fructification assumes 

 in different plants very different appearances. 



Of the Calyx there are seven principal 

 varieties. 



1 . The Perianth, conveying more clearly than any 

 other species of calyx the idea of a Cup, as in 

 the Cowslip, Primula veris, fig. 1, pi. 2. 



It is either 



Single, as in Primula, fig. 1, pi. 3. 



