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OEGANOGEAPHY AND GLOSSOLOGY. 



The compound style is improperly said to be simple {st. simplex), when wholly 

 undivided; it is hi- tri-fid, &c., when the component styles cohere beyond the 

 middle ; hi- partite, &o., when they do not cohere to the middle. The styles of each 

 carpel rarely bifurcate once or twice ; when they do, they are double or quadruple in 

 number to the carpels {Euphorhia, fig. 406). 



The style is terminal {st. terminalis), when it springs from the top of the ovary 

 {Apricot, fig. 411) ; — lateral, when it springs more or less from the ,?t Q° 



side of the carpel, the top of which appears bent downwards {Sti-aw- 

 herry, fig. 407) ; — huailar {st. hasilaris), when the top of the ovary is 



408. Alchemilla. 

 Cai-pel (mag,). 



, Euphorbia. 

 Pistil. 



407. Strawben-y. 

 Cai'pel (mag.). 



409. Comfrey. 

 Pistil and calyx cut vertically. 



410. Sago. 



Lowei" portion of 



flower, cut vertically. 



bent down to a level with its base {Alchemilla, fig. 408). When there are many 

 ovaries, with confluent hasilar styles, the style is said to be gynohasic {st. gynohasicus, 

 Comfrey, fig. 409), and the dilated base 

 of this composite style, extending below 

 the ovaries and surface of the re- 

 ceptacle, has been called a gynohase 



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411. Apricot. 

 Pistil cut vertically. 



412. Lychnis. 

 Toung Ovary (mag.) out trans- 

 versely. Ep, epicai-p ; End, endo- 

 carp; PL, placenta; (i, ovule; TO, 

 conducting tissue^; c, septum. ■ 



413. Snapdragon. 

 Vertical section ol style during 

 fertilization, sliowing two 

 pollen-grains on the stigma, 

 and the pollen-tubes pene- 

 trating between the cells of 

 the style (mag.). 



414. Dandelion. 

 Young pistiKmag.), open to sliow 

 the two cords, c.p, of the conduct- 

 ing tissue, of which one is broken. 

 Car, ovary ; L.o, calyx ; D.6, 

 epigynous disk; r, raphe; Oh, 

 chalaza ; m, mlcropyle. 



{gynohasis). The gynobase is sometimes prolonged into a gynophore {Sage, fig. 410 g) ; 

 but a gynophore proper must not be confounded with the gynobase ; the gynobase 

 belongs to the styles, that is, to the carpels ; the gynophore proper belongs to the 

 axis itself, of which it is the termination.' 



The style is a portion of the carpellary leaf, contracted into a sort of longi- 

 tudinal tube, filled with a moist and loose parenchyma, named conducting tissue 



' Except under the view that the placentae are productions of the axis. Ed. 



