The progressive era took 20 years to correct abuses of the Gilded Age. The New Deal struggled for a decade to overcome the Great Depression, and the expansion of economic justice lasted through the 1960s.
Stigma (botany) The stigma (plural: stigmata) is the receptive tip of a carpel, or of several fused carpels, in the gynoecium of a flower.
Flower Carpel and the Stigma. The stigma is the top, sticky portion of a carpel, and it is the location of pollination. Pollination occurs when a pollen grain lands on the stigma. Pollen is a protective structure carrying sperm cells and is produced by a flower's stamens.