THE FLOWERING PLANT. 



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pistil means pestle, or mortar. The flower-pisTiL is 

 shaped somewhat like the druggist's pestle, or mortar. 



Fig. 53. 

 Petal, or Flower-Leaf. 



Top of Pistil. 

 Petal. 



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The long, green body (Fig. 54), which forms the lower 

 part of the pistil, holds the eggs or young seeds, and so 

 it is named the ovary, or egg-bag. The top of the egg- 

 bag is drawn out into a curved, hollow tube (Fig. 54) 

 called the style (which comes from the Latin stylos, a 

 column), and is capped by a soft, sticky, hairy knob, 

 called the stigma, or mark. If you slit open this 

 ovary, or egg-pouch, you will find the young seeds, or 



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