ANTHER

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) A hollow I dly consisting of two parallel cells, and constituting the apparatus that contains the pollen, or male part of a flower. Theoretically considered, an anther is the blade of a leaf, in a contracted state, with its two sides hollowed out and its parenchyma converted into pollen, while the midrib in a fleshy state divides the two lobes, and is called thetrhenconnective.the lobes of'This the anther part is are sometimes often placed highly at developed.a distance irom each other, as in Nymphtea; or it is altogether absorbed \ es run together, and there is but one cell, as in Epficris. Other modifications produce other le lobe, for instance, disappears, ive is expanded into the state of a petal, as in (anna; or it is simply lengthened and dist or i Salvia; or, the anther remaining in its normal State, ii is ed into a fleshy ma , as in Penrea; and it under- "\- similar transformations, either from the same or other causes. What is most curious about the anther, [s. 72]