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DIFFERENT KINDS OF PISTILS. 



from the apex, to the base through the whole length, as inEpi- 

 medium and Leontice. \ 



They are fastened either by their base, as in most plants;... 

 their tops, as inCoLcmcuM ;... their sides, as in CANNA;...or grow 

 to the nectarium, as in Costus. 



Their Situation is either on the tops of the filaments, as in 

 most plants on the sides of the filaments, as in Paris and Asa- 

 rum;. ..on the pistillum, as in Aristolochia ;...or on the recepta- 

 cle, as in Arum. 



The Figure of the particles of the pollen appears, by glasses, 

 to be either globus echinatus, a prickly ball, as in Helianthus;... 

 perforate, as in Geranium double, as in Symphytum ;...rotato~ 

 dentate, wheel -shaped, as in Malva ; ... annulate, cornered, as in 

 Viola ;... reniform, kidney -shaped, as in Narcissus or folia 

 gonvoluta, a leaf rolled up, as in Borago. 



CHAP. XIV. 



OF THE DIFFERENT STRUCTURES OF THE PISTILLUM. 



THE Pistillum consists* of three parts, Gcrmen, Stylus, and 

 Stigma. Of these the germen being no other than the rudiment 

 of the pericarpium, its variations will be considered under that 

 head in the next chapter; nor need we speak here of the number 

 of the styles, as that will be treated of in the explanation of 

 the Sexual Syste?nf; but as the style is often divided, we must 

 consider its laciniae. 



* The 'author should have said imicilbj consists of. Editor. 

 f See Part II. Chap. III. in which the titles of the orders, which are governed 

 chiefly by the number of styles, are explained. 



