OF THE ORGANS. 



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pJiroditus), when both the sexual parts are contained in the 

 same cover, and for these last we employ the sign A 

 plant is called androgynous (androgynus), when the male 

 and female parts are separated from one another, but grow 

 upon the same common stalk, in the same ear, in the same 

 bunch, and so on. 



A plant, again, is called monoecius, which contains male 

 and female flowers separated from one another, but upon the 

 same plant ; it is called dioscius, when the separate sexual or- 

 gans appear upon different plants; and, lastly, it is called 

 'polygamus^ when sometimes male, sometimes female, and 

 sometimes hermaphrodite blossoms appear. 



104. 



As the female parts appear first, we must begin our account 

 with them. 



The Germen (^germen, ovarium), is the rudiment of the fu- 

 ture fruit. It is distinguished into the Simple and Com- 

 pound. In the Cherry, for example, the germen is simple ; 

 in Sage, it is made up of four compartments. In the germen 

 we discover the beginnings of the future seed, like small eggs 

 (ovula), which are frequently more numerous than the per- 

 fect seed. 



105. 



The germen rests upon the bottom of the calyx, or it is 

 supported by a fruit-stalk. From this, or from the calyx, 

 there often arises a fleshy elevated support, which is called, in 

 general, gyjiobasis, (Tab. III. Fig. 17.) ; and when this sup- 

 port, during the ripening of the fruit, swells powerfully, it is 

 called sarcohasis ; (Tab. I. Fig. 36.) To this belongs the 

 juicy swelling of the receptacle in the Strawberry, and the 

 related Genera; (Tab. III. Fig. 22.) In the umbelliferous 

 plants, Hoffman calls this part stylopodium. 



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The pistil {pistillum, stylus), is the part which proceeds 

 upAvards from the germen, or it is the prolongation of thiij 



