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turity. Its separate leaves are called SEPALS 80 IV. THE COROLLA (The Cup).--The inner whorl of leaves, forming the flower itself. Its separate leaves are called PETALS 71 V. THE TREASURY.--The part of the flower that contains its seeds. VI. THE PILLAR.--The part of the flower above its treasury, by which the power of the pollen is carried down to the seeds 78 It consists usually of two parts--the SHAFT and VOLUTE 78 When the pillar is composed of two or more shafts, attached to separate treasury-cells, each cell with its shaft is called a CARPEL 235 VII. THE STAMENS.--The parts of the flower which secrete its pollen 78 They consist usually of two parts, the FILAMENT and ANTHER, not yet described. VIII. THE NECTARY.--The part of the flower containing its honey, or any other special product of its inflorescence. The name has often been {247} given to certain forms of petals of which the use is not yet known. No notice has yet been taken of this part of the flower in Proserpina. /# These being all the essential parts of the flower itself, other forms and substances are developed in the seed as it ripens, which, I believe, may most conveniently be arranged in a separate section, though not logically to be considered as separable from the flower, but only as mature states of certain parts of it. #/ V. THE SEED. I must once more desire the reader to take notice that, under the four sections already defined, the morphology of the plant is to be considered as complete, and that we are now only to examine and name, farther, its _product_; and that not so much as the germ of its own future descendant flower, but as a separate substance which it is appointed to form, partly to its own detriment, for the sake of higher creatures. This product consists essentially of two parts: the Seed and its Husk. I. THE SEED.--Defined 220 It consists, in its perfect form, of three parts 222 /# These three parts are not yet determinately named in the text: but I give now the names which will be usually attached to them. #/ A. _The Sacque_.--The outside skin o
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