100 FIRST BOOK. 
your flowers. You see that something is still 
left." 
" Yes/' said Frank, ''just in the middle! What 
is it, Father?" 
6. '' I think I have told you enough hard names 
stamens and Pistil of Stamen of Pistil of the Lily, Seed-box of Lily 
a Flower, enlarged. Lily. the seed-box (a) cut open, show- 
at bottom. ing seeds. 
for the flower. You will not think of them all, I 
fear." 
'^Oh, yes, we will!" said Jane, who seemed 
quite proud to show that she had not forgotten 
them. ''There are the sepals first, then the petals, 
and then the stamens." 
7. " With their little boxes of pollen," put in 
Tom. 
Their father smiled. "Well done!" he said. 
" I think we may go on. Well, this part that is 
left in the middle of the flower is called the pistil^ 
and it holds the seed-box. 
