Handbook of practical botany for the botanical laboratory and private student (1908)
Strasburger, Eduard, 1844-1912, Hillhouse, William, 1850-1910 · London, S. Sonnenschein; New York, Macmillan · leaf 432
pistils (or carpels) left standing in the centre. Evenwith superficial observation we can distinguish upon the pistilthe lower, green, swollen portion—the ovary, and the thin part,here rose-coloured, into which the ovary narrows above—thestyle. This latter ends with the stigma, which in this case… … THE OVARY. 395 shows US a single cell or loculus in each ovary. Apparently it is a single reproductive, or carpel lary leaf, which forms each such ovary. We can conceive the carpellary leaf as having folded inwards and its edges grown together. To such an origin points, moreover, the ventral…
Botany · Plant physiology · Microscopy
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