Ch. XIII. | PISTILS. 77 
Fig. 52. 315. The Anther, is a little knob 
or box, usually situated on the 
summit of the filament; it has 
cells or cavities which contain a 
powder called the pollen; this 1s 
x, yellow, and very conspicuous in the 
~ Lily and Tulip. You have here 
the representation (Fig. 52) of a 
stamen with its filament (a,) its 
; anther (b) and the discharging pol- 
len (c.) In many flowers, you will perceive the filament to be 
wanting; the anthers are then said to be sessile; that is, 
placed immediately upon the corolla; as at d, which represents 
a flower cut open, and its five stamens growing sessile in the 
throat. 
Pistils. 
315. In the centre of the flower stands the Pistil, an orgax 
essential to the plant. Like the stamens, pistils vary in num- 
ber in different plants, some having but one, others hundreds. 
Linneus has founded the orders of his first twelve classes on 
the number of these organs. 
317. The pistil consists of three parts, germ, style, and stig- 
ma. It may be compared to a pillar; the germ (Fig. 53, a) 
corresponding to the base; the style (b) to the shaft; and the 
stigma (€) %o the capital. 
ig. 53. The figure at (g) represents the 
pistil of the Poppy ; the germ or base 
is very large; you will perceive that 
% the style is wanting, and the stigma 
is sessile, or placed immediately on 
, the germ. The style is not an es- 
ential part, but the stigma and germ 
are never wanting; so that these two 
parts, as in the Poppy, often consti- 
tute a pistil. 
318. Germ. The germ contains the rudiments of the fruit 
yet in an embryo or unformed state. This germ is the future 
fruit, but in passing to its perfect state it undergoes a great 
315. Describe the anther. 
316. Describe the pistil. 
317. What are the parts of the pistil 3 
318. Describe the germ. 
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