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carpellary, according as it has one, two, three, four, five, to many 
carpels. In old books the terms monogynous, digynous, trigynous 
etc., meaning of one, two, three, etc., carpels, are used instead 
of the more desirable modern ones. When the carpels are more 
Fic. XXXI.—Various forms of the gyncecium: 1, monocarpellary, 2, tricar- 
pellary; 3 and 4, pentacarpellary; 5, polycarpellary. 4 and 5 are apocarpous; 
2 and 3 are syncarpous. In 1, ais the ovary; c, the style; b, the stigma, 
than one they may be distinct, forming the apocarpous gyncecium ; 
or they may be coalescent into one compound organ, the syncarpous 
gynecium. In the former case the term pistil is applied to each 
carpel, and in the latter to the compound organ. Pistils are thus 
1 2 3 4 
Fig. XXXII —Simple pistils. 1 and 2 in longitudinal section; 3 and 4 in cross- 
section, 
of two kinds, simple and compound ; the simple pistil is synony- 
mous with carpel; the compound pistil with syncarpous gyne- 
cium, (Fig. XXXL) 
