Introduction to structural and systematic botany, and vegetable physiology, : being a 5th and revedof the Botanical text-book, illustrated with over thirteen hundred woodcuts . THE RECEPTACLE, DISK, ETC. 267. in that family. Occasionally one or more of the internodes betweensuccessive floral circles elongate; as between the calyx and thecorolla in Pinks, and especially in Silene, forming a stalk within thecalyx, on which the rest of the flower is raised (Fig. 432) ; whilein many Gentians the inter-node above the circle ofstamens is developed, rais-ing the pod on a stalk of itsown. This is a co

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Introduction to structural and systematic botany, and vegetable physiology, : being a 5th and revedof the Botanical text-book, illustrated with over thirteen hundred woodcuts . THE RECEPTACLE, DISK, ETC. 267. in that family. Occasionally one or more of the internodes betweensuccessive floral circles elongate; as between the calyx and thecorolla in Pinks, and especially in Silene, forming a stalk within thecalyx, on which the rest of the flower is raised (Fig. 432) ; whilein many Gentians the inter-node above the circle ofstamens is developed, rais-ing the pod on a stalk of itsown. This is a commoncase in the Caper family;in which the genus Gynan-dropsis (Fig. 433) exhibitsa remarkable developmentof the whole receptacle. Itis enlarged into a flatteneddisk, where it bears the pet-als, and is then prolonged 4S2 into a conspicuous stalk which bears the stamens, — or rather, towhich the bases of the stamens are adnate, — and then into a shorterand more slender stalk for the pistil; thus separating the four circlesor sets of organs, like so many whorls of verticillate leaves. Thegeneral name for this kind of stalk, as contradistinguished from thepedicel or stalk of the flower, is the Stipe ;

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