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(monopetalous) they are generally inserted into the corolla; 
but scarcely ever in flowers of more than one petal, (poly- 
petalous) but into the receptacle. Yet in the class icosandria, 
they are inserted into the calyx or corolla, (though the flow¬ 
ers have many petals) as also in a few other plants. But in 
the o'lftsi polyandria, and most other plants of many petals, 
they are inserted into the receptacle, like the calyx and 
corolla. But the class gynandria is an exception to the above 
rules, where the stamina are placed upon the pistillum, or 
female part of tjie flower; and are sometimes without filaments. 
The Antheea, (from anthos, a flower) emphatically so 
called, from its great utility in the fructification, is the top or 
summit of the filament, containing the impregnating pollen 
or farina ;* * and is either one to each filament, as in most 
plants; or one common to three filaments, as in cucurbit a , &c.; 
or ope common to five filaments, as in the whole class syrt- 
genesia; or sometimes there are two an therm to each filament, 
as in ranunculus, and mercurialis; three to each filament, as 
in fumaria ; five to three filaments, as in bryonia; or five to 
each filament, as in theohroma. The anthera is also distin¬ 
guished by its form or figure, as oblong, round, angular, &c. 
It also consists of one or more cells, which burst differently in 
different plants ; either on the side, as in most plants; on the 
top; or from the top to the base. It is also fastened to the 
top of the filament, either by its base, as in most plants ; or 
horizontally, by its middle, to the top of the filament, so poised 
as to turn like a fane (versatillis); or it is fixed by its side, 
leaning to the top of the filament, then called incumbent; or 
it sometimes grows to the nectarium,as in costus; to the recep^- 
tacle, as in arum ,• to the pistillum, as in the class gynandria. 
IV. The PISTILLUM, (a pestle). This is the female of the 
i flower, proceeding from the pith of the plant; and is that 
erect column, which is generally placed in the centre of the 
to this rule, not being alternate with the segments of the corolla, but opposite to 
them; which gives the essential character.—As soon as the stamina have performed 
the office assigned by nature, they wither and drop off. See note to collinsonia. 
* The particles of the pollen or farina, appear by glasses to be of very different 
forms.—The pollen makes a third division of the stamen, but Linnaeus generally 
includes it in the term anthera, along with the little cells in which it is enclosed. 
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