OF THE rrAMEN'"';. 



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LESSON XVI. 



MORE ABOUT ■' > AMEN,. 



106. The careful student will find a great and interesting 

 variety in the number, arrangement, and form of the stamens. 

 In regard to number, as we have already seen, the Lily has 

 six stamens, the Pink has ten, the Speedwell two, the Indian 

 ■ Shot only one. Some flowers have numerous stamens, as the 

 Rose with forty, fifty, or one hundred, and the Cactus with 



179 ISO 



Fig. 179. Stamens and pistils of Mallow ; the filaments if) are united into a tube 

 sheathing the styles. 



Fig. 180. Floret of Dandelion, — anthers (a) united into a tube. 



Fig. 181. Corolla of Lophospemmiii,split open to show the four stamens (didyn'a- 

 mous) and the one style. 



Fig. 182. Cardamine, — stamens six, tetradyn'amous. 



106. What number of stamens in Pink? Speedwell? Indian Shot? 

 What in the Eose ? Cactus ? Apple ? or in time flowers? Define "stamens' 

 definite ;" " stamens indefinite." 



