id Pi b ees” , a 
an that p m 
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The External Form of Plants. 137 
Lastly, we must also include under this head barren 
stamens or staminodes, filiform bodies placed either within 
or without the perfect stamens, but not furnished, like them, 
Fic. 266.—Longitudinal section of flower of larkspur, with spurred 
calyx and corolla (magnified). 
with anthers at their apex. Examples occur in [the female 
flowers of] the bay Laurus nobilis, in /llecebrum, Erodium, 
Samolus, [the borage (Fig. 262) according to some], &c. 
THE ANDRCECIUM OR STAMENS. 
The Stamens consist, in their most perfect form (Fig. 
267), of a longer or shorter filiform stalk, the 77/ament, which | 
bears at its apex the anther. 
The filament usually divides 
the anther into two haives, the 
anther-lobes. ‘The part of the 
filament which is inserted 
between the anther-lobes is 
called the connective, and is 
sometimes divided into two Fic. 267.—Stamen of Fic. 268.— Stamen 
arms, which are often greatly Lomi with mo: ‘of horabeam, Car- 
elongated, and are either of connective (magni- branching connect - 
; ed). tive (magnified). 
equal length, as in the horn- 
beam (Fig. 268), hazel-nut, alder, birch, and lime, or occa-. 
sionally of very unequal length, as in Sa/vda (Fig. 269). 
