1014. The parts of the flower are: the calyx or cup (fig. 235. a), which is that leaf, or those leaves, by which the flower is usually enclosed when in bud, and which, when the flower is expanded, appear under it. The corolla (corona, a crown), which is the coloured leaf, or leaves, of a flower (fig. 235. b). The stamen (or first principle of any thing), which is the thread-like process, or processes, immediately within the leaves of the corolla (fig. 236). It consists of two parts; the filament or thread (a), and the anther (b): this anther contains what is called the pollen, or fructifying meal (c). The pistil, which is found in the centre of the flower (fig. 237.), and consists of three parts: the ovary or germen, containing the rudiments of the fruit or seed (a) ; the style (b) ; and the stigma or summit (c), which crowns the style, and is destined to receive the fructifying pollen.
