03? 
/ . 
CHAPTER XX. 
Plate XXXIV. — tiie capsule, pistil, stamina, nigella, 
PLUMULE, AND RADICLE. 
Fig. 1. The capsule or seed-vessel of the poppy: (papaver 
somniferum:) it is divided to exhibit its internal structure. 
Fis. 2. Is an instance of an erect flower, the agave Americana; 
in which the pistil is shorter than the stamina, c, the pistil; 6, the 
stigma; c, the stamina; d, the antherae. 
Fig. 3. A flower of the crown-imperial. The relative length of 
the parts is now inverted, a, the pistil; 6, the stamina. 
Fig. 4. A blossom of the nigclla. 
Fig. 5. A grain of barley, showing the plumule and radicle grow¬ 
ing from it. 
