

108 = FLOWERING PLANTS 
round the fruits, which are one or two in number and are 
achenes —e¢.g., Lady’s Mantle, 
Great Burnet, Salad Burnet, Ag- 
rimony. lLady’s Mantle (Alche- 
milla) has no petals, and an 
epicalyx as well as calyx. In 
the Salad Burnet (Potertum) the 
+ upper flowers are staminate, the 
peas long red filaments and yellow 
Fig. 83.—Mupran Vertica, thers rendering them very 
~ Section or Lapy’s MantLe. conspicuous; the lowest flowers 
® eplealyx; s; calyxs@ an- are pistillate, whilst the middle 
ers; g, stigma; 7, recep- 
tacle containing carpels. ones have both stamens and 
| carpels (Fig. 86). This plant is 
wind-pollinated ; the long styles have brush-like stigmas, 
which catch the pollen. 
The Great Burnet (Sanguisorba, 
Fig. 85) differs from the Salad 

Burnet in having only 4 stamens ; | Ne 
instead of an indefinite number, and Ne 
from Lady’s Mantle in the absence es 
of the epicalyx and in the stamens ae ay, i 
being opposite to, not alternate _ cS | on ’ 
with, the sepals. There is no 
corolla in these three genera. The 
Great Burnet is insect-pollinated. 
In Agrimony (Fig. 84), the 
bristles of the receptacle should be 
noticed. : | 5, 
5. Potentillew.—The receptacle is § awe 
- convex, either dry or succulent ; the 
fruits are achenes scattered over : : 
the surface of the receptacle—e.q., — : | 
Cinquefoil, Strawberry, Blackberry, #16. 84.—Sprke or Acri- 
MONY, SHOWING BUDS AT 
Raspberry, Geum, and Avens Apex, FLOWERS IN. THE 
(“Elementary Botany,” Figs. 88 ceeas AND Fruits at 
and 114). ae 
6. Pomew.—The two to five carpels are enclosed in and 


