. Plants; a text-book of botany. Botany. Fig.'21.^5. Flowers of Rose family: i, a hypogynous flower of PottidUla. sejuiK. petals, and stamens arisins: from beneath the head of carpels; 2, a perigynous flower of AtchfinlUa. sepals, petals, and stamens arisini^ from rim of um-like pro- longation of the receptacle, which surrounds the carpel; 3. an epigynou^ flower of the common apple, in which all the parts seem to arise from the top of the ovary, two of whose loculi are seen.—After Focke. receptacle, which surrounds the pistil or pistils, the flower is said to \)eperigynous (Figs. 205, ,', 20(3


. Plants; a text-book of botany. Botany. Fig.'21.^5. Flowers of Rose family: i, a hypogynous flower of PottidUla. sejuiK. petals, and stamens arisins: from beneath the head of carpels; 2, a perigynous flower of AtchfinlUa. sepals, petals, and stamens arisini^ from rim of um-like pro- longation of the receptacle, which surrounds the carpel; 3. an epigynou^ flower of the common apple, in which all the parts seem to arise from the top of the ovary, two of whose loculi are seen.—After Focke. receptacle, which surrounds the pistil or pistils, the flower is said to \)eperigynous (Figs. 205, ,', 20(3). meaning " around the ; Finally, the insertion is carried above the ovary, and sepals, petals, and stamens seem to arise from the top of the ovary (Fig. 205, J), such a flower being epigynous. the outer parts appearing '•upon the ovary.'' In such a case the ovary does not appiear within the flower, but below it (Figs. 252, 261), and the flower is often said to have an • • inferior ; 123. Apocarpous to syncarpous flowers.—In the simpler flowers the carpels are entirely distinct, each carpel organ-. 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 Merle, 1851-1928. New York, D. Appleton and company


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