Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany (1858)
Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 · New York, American Book Company · leaf 16
e Rose and the Buttercup have a great many. A pistil has three parts. At the bottom is the Ovary , which becomes the seed-vessel. This is prolonged upwards into a slender body, called the Style. And this bears a moist, generally somewhat enlarged por¬ tion, with a naked roughish surface (not having… … bodies which are to become seeds, are named Ovules. In the Lily these are very numerous. In the Morning-Glory they are few, only six. 18. These are all the parts of the flower, — all that any flower has. But many flowers have not all these parts. Some have only one flower- cup or one set of…
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