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Title: The natural history of plants, their forms, growth, reproduction, and distribution;
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Kerner von Marilaun, Anton, 1831-1898 Oliver, Francis Wall, 1864- Macdonald, Mary Frances Ewart Busk, Marian Balfour, Lady
Subjects: Botany
Publisher: London, Blackie
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. .h. nth 12th 17th, and 21st classes of the Linnean System.Fig. 285.-Types of the 11th, l^tn, , „=H,aininv * Chrysobalamis. figures somewhat enlarged. 294 THE CROSSING OF FLOWERS. stamens and pistil, and so might also be mistaken for hermaphrodite flowers, butcloser examination shows that their ovaries do not develop sufficiently to producefertile seeds. The ovules, and usually the stigmas as w^ell, do not mature, but thepollen in the anthers attains its full power. (3) True pistillate flowers. In tlieseonly fertile ovaries are developed, and there is no trace of stamens. (4) Truestaminate flowers, the counterpart of the third group. They contain stamens whoseanthers hold ripe pollen, but their ovaries are quite suppressed. To the four types of unisexual flowers we shall apply short descriptive names,at once rendering the character of the flower apparent, and saving much needlessiteration and confusion. (1) Pseudo-hermapkrodite female flowers are the pistillateflowers which appear

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