The stigma, which is indispensably necessary, is, in 
some cases, seated immediately upon the germen. ‘The 
shape of the stigma is either simple, es little more 
than a point; or it is capitate, like a pin’s head, as in 
rasses, the stigmas are amply 
In the 
color contrasts beautifully with the large yellow PH 
whose so pliig or explosion, may almost be seen w 
the naked e. 
The Pilar or seed vessel is the germen grown 
to maturity. It varies extremely, being pulpy in apples, 
fleshy in cherries, juicy in gooseberries, and hard in 
nuts, other words, the fruit which we eat, is nothing 
more than the pericarps, serving to protect the see 
till ripe 
The Seed i is that part of every plant by which it is 
the stamen, is provided with a 
fine dust, called the pollen, which, falling on the gammy 
matter at the top of the pistillum, or pistil, is there 
absorbed, and carried down into the germen, or seed- 
vessel, where the one is and made ns ah of 
reproducing the p! 
ay 3g is es seventh part of fructification 
distinguished by Linnzus; being the common basis, 
or point of connexion of the oth 
distinguished by any particular 
flowers, it is, often, little more than a point: in compound 
flowers, it is very remarkable, and important, serving, 
by its differences of structure, to afford very good generic 
distinctions. 
e of the fructification is common both to 
the flower and the fruit, or it embraces the corol and” 
the germ. 
a proper e eptacle . 7 & 4° 42 
common — conmects several florets, or distinet 
fructifcation 
7 a 1 
acquiring a a differe nk texture in in the fruit, from what it 
had in the flower. ‘Thus, the whole fruit, as we call 
it of the Fig, is a common receptacle, at first coriaceous 
(resembling baci. tough,) and, like the rest of the 
plant, containing a milky acrid juice. It forms a bag, 
lined with florets, or small flowers, and having a small 
aperture at the top: after the flowers are past, this b 
becomes pulpy, colored, and full of sweet aromatic 
juice. So the fruit of the strawberry is, originally, a 
small dry receptacle, subsequently orgie’ and become 
pulpy, whose outside is studded wi seeds. 
The Receptacle of the flower, in Linnzan language, 
means the area, or space between the stamens and styles, 
Ww h 
rt in question is more or less tumid, often colored, 
and assumes a glandular aspect. 
According to another definition, the Receptacle of 
the flower is the base to which the parts of the flower, 
a os of the germen, are fixed. 
ctary, or honey-cup, is that part of the flower, 
from witch bees, and other insects extract the honey; 
a fiuid found almost universally in 
The shape and structure of the ati or nectary, 
ear said decisive marks, b 
is distinguished from another. 
Crown Imperial, the 
which one qetitis 
e nectary is a mere cup, or 
depression; in the Lily, a bordered furrow in the claw 
each petal; in the Violet, the base of one petal is 
elongated into a spur, or bag, wed the honey; 
in the Nasturtium, the nect: s an elonga- 
Darwin —- it as ‘‘a colored 
yx. 
n the Epimedium or Bivriatort: the nectary is of 
the nature and texture of petals, but perfectly cistinict 
from them, as well as from the t 
calyx, and their nectaries the — — The ou 
boring genus Ranunculus, pores i 
the claws of its petals, certainly gives weight to om 
a determination. 
Some flowers display an elaborate a which 
cern in the 
These, not being referrible to any other of the usual 
parts of fructification, all of peg are nh ate: besides, 
are, by analogy, presumed to be ni 
The numerous and complex rays a decorate the 
Passion Flower, are equally inexplicable in their nature, 
But they crown the cell where the copious honey is 
lodged, while their omer Bee and vivid variega- 
tion of color, i r connexion wi 
light, two great p 
saccharine fluid; nor does it appear 
that they share in its elaboration. 
richly colored petals of flowers, possibly answer the 
same e 
