48 ADHERENT OVARY. 
In the young Poppy (f. 18.) may be seen a number of 
partitions which scarcely reach the centre, which in the 
full grown poppy head do not extend half way from 
the sides; showing that their increase has not kept 
pace with the growth of the walls of the ovaries. 
The ovules in the Pink, &c. occupy the centre of 
the pistil, while in the Poppy they are placed upon the 
sides of the partitions (f. 18.). 
In the Violet and Heartsease, there are three ovaries 
(f, 14.), but they do not form any partitions, and the 
ovules (0.) are fixed in three rows on the sides of this 
compound ovary. 
71. When a great many ovaries exist in one flower, 
(as in the Buttercup, f. 6. &e.) they are arranged in a 
different way to those of the Orange, Geranium, or 
Mallow, &c. They are usually placed on a cone (r.) 
called a receptacle, and are arranged on it in a spiral 
manner; this receptacle is also called an elevated aais; 
it is in fact a continuation of the same part, as that on 
which the stamens, petals, and calyx of the flower are 
arranged. 
72, Thus the ovaries may vary in number from one 
to twenty, or more, and they may, like the other parts 
of the flower, be separate, or combined into one body. 
The ovary or ovaries may be united or adhere to the 
calyx and other parts of the flower; and then the term 
adherent calyx, or adherent ovary is employed, to 
denote such a condition (par. 46.). This union of the 
calyx may extend to a part, or to the whole of the 
ovary, as in the Myrtle, Evening Primrose, and Fuschia 
(pl. 13. f. 9. 0. ovary, ¢. calyx). Sometimes the calyx 
