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INTRODUCTION TO BOTANY. 147
Tailed, caudata. Furnished with appendages like a tail.
Steehelina.
Opercular, opercularia, operculiformis. Shutting up, like
a lid, the cavity in which the pollen is contained. Serapias,
Neottia, Limodorum.
4. Proportion.
Shorter than the filament, Anthera JUamento hrevior
Lilium, Fuchsia.
As long as the filament, Jilamenti longitudine. Hermannia
denudata.
Longer than the filament, Jilamenio longior. Cerinthe
major.
•jf Unlike, Antherce diss'imiles. .Different in the same
flower. Cassia.
5. Surfaces.
Smooth, Anthera Icevis. The greatest part of flowers.
Bald, glabra. Orobanche major.
Downy, puhescens. Digitalis ferruginea.
Shaggy, hispida, hirta. Lathrsea simplex.
Fringed, ciliata. Orobanche minor, Brunella, Lavandula,
Galeopsis segetum.
Bearded, barhata. Having a tuft of hairs in some peculiar
part. Pedicularis, Acanthium, Carpinus.
Glanduliferous, glandidifera. Having glands. Cardiaca
vulgaris, Marrubium Hispanicum, Molucella levis.
6. Lobes.
One-lobed, Anthera uniloha. Pinus, Larix, Cupressus,
Juniperus, Thuya.— In pinus, larix, abies, the anthers appear
to be two-lobed, because, as they are fixed two together
upon scales that appear like filaments, they resemble the
two lobes of a single anther; but their analogy to other
plants show that they are two single distinct anthers.
Two-lobed, biloba. The generality of plants. PI. 11,
fig. 15, 19 and 20.
Many-lobed, multiloba. Taxus.
7. Cells.
One- celled, Anthera unilocularis. Cycas, Larix, Cupressus,
Juniperus, Thuya.
Two-celled, bilocularis. Orchis, Ephedra.
Four-celled, quadrilocularis. Most plants.
Many-celled, multiloadaris. Taxus.
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