xxxu 



BOTANY. 



,ca/rpellary, according as it has one, two, three, four, five, to many 

 carpels. In old books the terms monogynous, digyncms, trigynous 



■etc., meaning of one, two, three, etc., carpels, are used instead 

 of the more desirable modern ones. When the carpels are more 



Fig. XXXI.— Various forms of the gynoecium: 1, monocarpellary, 2, tricar- 

 pellary; 3 and 4, pentacarpellary; 6, polycaipellary. 4 and 5 are apocarpous; 

 2 and 3 are syncarpous. In 1, a is tlie ovary ; c, the style; 6, the stigma. 



than one they may be distinct, forming the apoca/rpous gynoecium; 

 or they may be coalescent into one compound organ, the syncarpous 

 gynoecium. In the former case the teiia pistil is applied to each 

 carpel, and in the latter to the compound organ. Pistils are thus 



Fig. XXXU.- 

 section. 



-Simple pistils. 



3^ 4 



1 and 2 in longitudinal section ; 3 and 4 in cross- 



of two''kinis, simple and compound; the simple pistil is synony- 

 mous with carpel ; the compound pistil with syncarpous gynoe- 

 cium. (Fig. XXXI.) 



