. Gray's school and field book of botany. Consisting of "Lessons in botany," and "Field, forest, and garden botany," bound in one volume. Botany; Botany. SECTION 10.] PISTILS. 107 the midnb of the leaf,ânot a seam therefore; but at maturity many fruits such as pea-pods, open by this dorsal as well as by the ventral line. Placenta, a name given to the surface, whatever it be, which bears the ovules and seeds. The name may be needless when the ovules grow directly on the ventral suture, or from its top or bottom ; but when there are many ovules there is usually some expansion
. Gray's school and field book of botany. Consisting of "Lessons in botany," and "Field, forest, and garden botany," bound in one volume. Botany; Botany. SECTION 10.] PISTILS. 107 the midnb of the leaf,ânot a seam therefore; but at maturity many fruits such as pea-pods, open by this dorsal as well as by the ventral line. Placenta, a name given to the surface, whatever it be, which bears the ovules and seeds. The name may be needless when the ovules grow directly on the ventral suture, or from its top or bottom ; but when there are many ovules there is usually some expansion of an ovule-bearing or seed-bearing surface; as is seen in our Mandrake or Podophyllum Fig. 326. ^ â ' 309. A Compound PistU is a combination of two, three, or a greater number of pistU-leaves or carpels in a cirde, united into one body, at least. 327 328 829 330 by their ovaries. The annexed figures should make it clear. A series of Saxifrages might be selected the gyncecium_of which would show every gradation between two simple pistils, or separate carpels, and their com- plete coalescence into one compound and two-celled ovary. Even when the constituent sfjles and stigmas are completely coalescent into one, the nature of the combination is usually revealed by some external lines or grooves, or (as in Fig. 328-330) by the internal partitions, or the number of the placentae. The simplest case of compound pistil is that 310. With two or more Cells and Axile Placentae, namely, with as many cells as tliere are cai-pels, that have united to compose the organ. Fig. 326. Simple pistil of Podophyllum, cut across, showing ovules torne on placenta. ,, Pig. 327. Pistil of a Saxifrage, of two simple carpels or pistil-leaves, united at the only, cut across both above and below. Fig. 328. Compound 3-carpellary pistil of common St. John's-wort, cut across: the three styles separate. Pig. 329. The same of shrubby St. John's-wort; the three styles as well as ovaries here united into
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