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may perhaps find the latter to be sticky at # the top; 
and a magnifying-glass might show you that some 
yellow dust is sticking to it. 
3. This sticky part is known as the stigma, its 
slender stalk is called the style, and the rounded 
body at the bottom is the ovary. 
The central part, which you thus 
find to be made up of stigma, style, 
and ovary, is known as the pistil. 
4. If you cut across the lower part 
of the pistil, your sharp 
eyes may discover a 
number of little hol- 
lows. In these lie tiny 
seed-buds, or plant- 
eggs as we may call 
them, which might 
have grown into seeds 
some day if you had 
not picked the flower. 
5. It is the leaves and 
the roots that attend 
to the feeding of the 
plant, and it is left to 
the flowers to produce seeds for the growth of new 
plants. And as we have found that the young 
seed-buds are held in the lower part of the pistil, 
I think we shall be right in calling that the most 
important part of the flower. 
1, Inflorescence of Coco. 2, Lower part with 
portion of spathe removed. 
