The individual flowers are very small and simple in structure, being often reduced to the gynœcium or andræcium, carpels and stamens being almost always in separate flowers.
The carpels are more or less united from the first, and form at first a sort of shallow cup with the edges turned in (D, gy.
The innermost set consists of two carpels united into a compound pistil.
The carpelsare usually united into a compound pistil, but may be separate, as in the stonecrop (Fig.
In the first the carpels are of the same number as the petals and sepals; in the second fewer.
Monœcious: having stamens and carpels in different flowers, but on the same plant.
B) consists of numerous, separate carpels attached to a globular receptacle.
In these plants, the calyx and corolla are entirely absent, but the flowers have both carpels and stamens (Fig.
In this flower, the end of the flower axis is much enlarged, looking like the rose of a watering-pot, and has the large, separate carpels embedded in its upper surface.
In iris the carpels are free above and colored like the petals (B), with the stigma on the under side.
In both cases the carpels are completely united, forming a single, compound pistil.
The lower ones have all the parts of the flower entirely separate, and often indefinite in number; the higher have the gynœcium composed of two or more carpels united to form a compound pistil.
The carpels are united to form a 4- to 5-chambered ovary, which bears a simple elongated style ending in a capitate stigma; each ovary-chamber contains one to many ovules attached to a central placenta.
The climate is extremely varied, the following being the average temperatures and mean annual rainfall at Alexandropol (alt.
While barley only can be grown on the high parts of the plateau, cotton, mulberry, vines and all sorts of fruit are cultivated in the valley of the Aras.
The carpel, or aggregate of carpels forming the pistil or gynaeceum, comprises an ovary containing one or more ovules and a receptive surface or stigma; the stigma is sometimes carried up on a style.
Hollow-seeded; having the ventral face of the seedlike carpels incurved at the ends, as in coriander seed.
The peculiar fruit of fennel, carrot, parsnip, and the like, consisting of a pair of carpels pendent from a supporting axis.
The development of the carpels stands usually in an inverse relation to the size of the parts of the corolla.
The columella of the ovary is none other than the internal edge of the carpels from which the leaf-wall has been freed.
The reticular-leaf is perfected into a capsule, where the carpels are so confluent with each other, that they form septa and bear the seeds upon the internal angle or upon the axis, as in the Rues.
While in the preceding class the number of the carpels was usually indeterminate; it is here limited to three and five.
If few cells be present as parts of the flower, the carpels are then to be regarded as arrested.
Shrubs with few stamina, only two to three carpels and few seeds.
As the parts of the corolla alternate with the calyx, so do the carpels or cells of the ovary with the corolla; they stand therefore opposite the parts of the calyx or are situated in front of them.
Fruit a 3-lobed capsule separating from the persistent axis into three 2-valved 1-seeded carpels dehiscent on the dorsal suture and partly dehiscent on the ventral suture.
Seed vessel dry, with thin envelope bristling with stiff hairs; 3 carpels each containing a seed.
Carpels formed of 5 ovaries, free, unilocular, containing one ovule each.
I may add that in one variety of the cucumber (Cucumis sativus) the fruit regularly contains five carpels instead of three.
Fruit--the ripe carpels are splitting, exposing the seeds, some of which are suspended by the long funicle.
The sepals are three in number, the petals six to twelve, in two to four series of three in each, the stamens and carpels being numerous.
Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.
Either entirely of partially separate, as the carpels of a compound pistil; Ð opposed to syncarpous.
Like Zamia, except that the ends of the stamens are flat, while the apices of the carpels are peltate.
Robert Brown was the first to give a clear description of the morphology of the Abietineous cone in which carpels bear naked ovules; he recognized gymnospermy as an important distinguishing feature in conifers as well as in cycads.
Dioecious; flowers in the form of cones, except the female flowers of Cycas, which consist of a rosette of leaf-like carpels at the apex of the stem.
The section of the flower is also magnified to show the elevated receptacle, and the position of the carpels c and the stamens d with regard to each other.
The carpels of the Peony are also many-seeded, while those of the Ranunculus contain only one seed in each.
In many of the British species, also, the carpels are not awned, but slightly curved, very like those of a buttercup.
There are from sixteen to twenty carpels enclosed in the dilated receptacle, to which the stigmas form a ray-like cover; and each carpel contains several seeds.
The carpels of this plant frequently grow slightly together, and their styles curve inwardly.
The tribe Magnolieae is distinguished by the fruit consisting of a number of carpels arranged so as to form a cone.
In the next few days this decision rapidly becomes visible, and the different parts of the normal stamens and the metamorphosed carpels soon become apparent.
Numbers are of course less liable to changes, but the numbers of the rays of umbels, or ray-florets in the composites, of pairs of blades in pinnate leaves, and even of stamens and carpels are known to be often exceedingly variable.
It is a case exactly similar to that of the supernumerary carpels of the pistilloid poppy, and the deductions arrived at with that variety may be applied directly to double flowers.
The numbers of stamens, or of carpels are dependent on nutrition, but their fluctuation is not known to have any attraction for the visiting insects.
Stamens may unite into pairs, or carpels bear four stigmas.
Stamens are sometimes replaced by open carpels with naked ovules arising from their edges and even from their whole inner surfaces.
The largest heads have the brightest crowns, and the number of supernumerary carpels diminishes in nearly exact proportion to the size of the fruits.
The carpels of buttercups and columbines, the cells in the capsules of cotton and many other plants are variable in number.
This bud as a rule grows out after the fading away of the flower, bursting through the green carpels of the unripe fruit, and producing ordinarily a secondary raceme of flowers.
Fruit of Rosa alba, consisting of the fleshy hollowed axis s', the persistent sepals s, and the carpels fr.
The three carpelsforming the pepo are separated by partitions.
When the carpels in a syncarpous pistil do not fold inwards so that the placentas appear as projections on the walls of the ovary, then the ovary is unilocular (fig.
In the raspberry the carpels are on a conical receptacle; in the strawberry, on a swollen succulent one (fig.
In the order Scrophulariaceae one of the two carpels is posterior and the other anterior, whilst in Convolvulaceae the carpels are arranged laterally.
When thecarpels are united, as in the pear, arbutus and chickweed, the pistil becomes syncarpous.
In Cycas the carpelsare ordinary leaves, with ovules upon their margin.
The number of carpels in a pistil is indicated by the Greek numeral.
The divisions of the stigma mark the number of carpels which compose the pistil.
The carpels may be arranged either at the same or nearly the same height in a verticil, or at different heights in a spiral cycle.
Later, the five carpels make as many hairy, awl-tipped little pods within the reddish cup.
Stamens 6 to 8, the filaments white; carpels 3 or 4, united at base, dangling.
Nectar secreted on the sides of each of the many carpels invites a conscientious bee all around the center, on which she should alight to truly benefit her entertainer.
Calyx deeply 5-parted, persistent; 5 large petals; stamens and carpels numerous, the latter inserted on a pulpy receptacle.
Usually there are about fifteen rounded carpels that go to make up the Dutch, doll, or fairy cheeses, as the seed vessels are called by children.
Calyx of 4 to 9 oval, petal-like sepals; no petals; stamens and carpels numerous, of indefinite number.
When the elastic carpels have ripened their seed, bang!
Calyx of 3 sepals corolla of 3 deciduous petals; 6 or more stamens; many carpels in a ring on a small flat receptacle.
Ovary inferior, with carpels 1 to 6 (usually 4), many-seeded.
The flowers are small, white, with larger outer petals; and the carpels of the fruit are cylindrical, about a third of an inch long, with beaks about an inch and a half.
Where the pistil consists of more than one carpel, these carpels may unite in such a manner as to form a single cell, or an ovary of two or more cells.
They have five coloured, deciduous sepals; five petals, each with a curved spur that projects below the base of the calyx; numerous stamens; and an ovary of five carpels which ripen into as many follicles.
Each flower has five spreading sepals which are prolonged downward at the base into a short spur; five very narrow, tubular petals; a few stamens; and a spike-like cluster of many carpels in the centre.
As the fruit ripens the cluster of carpels lengthens into a slender spike from an inch to an inch and a half long.
The carpels of the flowers do not enclose the seeds, but are thick scales beneath which the seeds lie.
The five carpels separate when ripe, and are raised by the curling of their styles.
When the fruit is ripe the five carpels separate, and are raised by the curving of the smooth styles which remain for a time attached to the beak.
In the one case, the receptacle robs the carpels of all their juice in order to become gorged and bloated at their expense; in the other case, the carpels act in the same selfish manner upon the receptacles.
A fruit composed of several cartilaginous or bony carpels inclosed in an adherent fleshy mass, which is partly receptacle and partly calyx, as an apple, quince, or pear.
Hitherto those instances have been considered in which either the carpels were absent, or the new bud proceeded from between the carpels.
As the carpels are not unfrequently absent in cases of median prolification, it has been thought that the pistil in such cases was metamorphosed into a stem bearing leaves or flowers.
When this change occurs it is commonly attended by an increased number of parts, as in the trefoil just mentioned, or in the double cherry, where usually two foliaceous carpelsmay be met with, and sometimes more.
One of the most remarkable features in this plant is, that the carpels have often two ovules on their margins.
Sometimes this increase in the number of carpels is due to pure multiplication, without any other change.
In the St. Valery apple, already referred to, there is a second whorl of carpels above the first, a fact which has been made use of to explain the similar structure of the pomegranate.
Triple nuts (Corylus) also owe their peculiarity to the equal development of all three carpels which exist in the original flower, but of which, under ordinary circumstances, two become abortive.
At other times the increase is due to a substitution of stamens or other organs for carpels (see Substitutions).
In the horse-radish (Armoracia rusticana), two of the carpels are frequently converted into stamens, while two other organs absent from the normal flower make their appearance as carpels.
In some of the instances of so-called proliferous pears the carpels would seem to be entirely absent, and the dilated portion of the axis to be alone repeated.
The carpels were entirely absent in this case, and the place of the free central placenta was occupied by a circle of leaves, sometimes bearing imperfect ovules on their edges.
The plant was a carnation, and its placenta bore, not only ovules, but also carpels (fig.
Spilanthes, five carpels have also been noticed; in Cruciferæ three and four, in grasses three.
The inferior ovary is two-celled, bearing two styles; and the fruit separates into two dry one-seeded carpels that are ribbed longitudinally.
It has many stamens, arranged like those of the strawberry; and the pistil is composed, as that is, of a number of carpels rising out of a central receptacle.
Those which we commonly call the seeds of the strawberry, then lie on the surface, and these, if carefully examined, will prove to be the carpels containing the seeds in a little thin shell like a small nut.
In a little time, the carpelsare completely scattered in an irregular manner over the surface of the receptacle, which has become soft and juicy, and has all along been pushing aside the calyx, which finally falls back almost out of sight.
Roast or bake a young duck as directed, and serve it with carpels of orange all around; and sprinkle some orange-juice all over just before serving it.
To serve whole or in dice, or in pieces like carpels of oranges, those called Mercers and the like, are preferable, because they do not bruise so easily.
When roasted or baked and dished, place carpels of oranges all around, and serve.
Cut pine-apple in dice, and proceed as described for carpels of orange.
Soak the prunes in tepid water, and when dry, hook them like carpels of orange, and finish in the same manner.
Then place the rows ofcarpels of oranges all around outside of it, and in the same way as described above.
Peel the oranges; then divide the carpels and free them from the pith, and put them away in a warm place for a few hours; they may be left over night.
This has also occurred with a plant of Saxifraga geum, in which a series of adventitious carpels, bearing ovules on their margins, had been developed between the stamens and the normal carpels (18/94.
Plants with alternate entire leaves and perfect flowers, having the general characters of Chenopodiaceae, but usually a several-celled ovary composed of as many carpels united in a ring, and forming a berry in fruit.
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