. Plant life and plant uses; an elementary textbook, a foundation for the study of agriculture, domestic science or college botany. Botany. The most striking varia- tion of the gynoecium is the variation in the position of the ovary with reference to the rest of the flower. (Study Figure 115.) You observe that ovaries have three distinct positions with reference to the rest of the flower. Fig. 114. — Three types of pistils. The figure farthest at the left shows three simple pistils composed of separate carpels. The other figures show com- pound pistils composed of united car- Fig. 115.
. Plant life and plant uses; an elementary textbook, a foundation for the study of agriculture, domestic science or college botany. Botany. The most striking varia- tion of the gynoecium is the variation in the position of the ovary with reference to the rest of the flower. (Study Figure 115.) You observe that ovaries have three distinct positions with reference to the rest of the flower. Fig. 114. — Three types of pistils. The figure farthest at the left shows three simple pistils composed of separate carpels. The other figures show com- pound pistils composed of united car- Fig. 115. — Diagrams illustrating hypogyny, perigyny, and epigyny. See context. In the first of these the other parts of the flower are all attached to the receptacle beneath the ovary. This ar- rangement is called hypogyny. (The word signifies under the gyncecium.) In the second arrangement the'other parts. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Coulter, John G. (John Gaylord), b. 1876. New York, American Book Co
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