60 BOYS AND GIRLS IN BIOLOGY. 



eggs, fastened to its sides by small cords (Fig. 55). 

 These eggs are called ovules, that is, little eggs. Each 



Fig. 54. 



Hairy Mark, or 

 Stigma. 



The Pointer, or 

 Style. 



bo '. be be 

 be • be be 



Egg-Pouch, or 

 Ovary. 



Pistil and all its Parts. 



little egg is well protected by two coats (Fig. 56). In 

 the centre of each egg lies a group of cells called the 

 kernel, or nucleus (Fig. 56) ; but this nucleus of the 



Fig. 55. 



u 



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bc^ 



A 

 ' s 

 • \ 



Tuft of Hairs. 



Tube, or Style. 

 Ovary. 



Pistil and its Three Parts— Stigma, Style, and Ovary. 



seed is different from that of the amoeba and protococ- 

 cus. The little gate, the micropyle, leads through the 

 coats into the nucleus (Fig. 56). You recollect, I told 



