300 VARIOUS KINDS OF FLOWERS. 



Having thus explained the various organs 

 of fructification, we shall add a few remarks 

 concerning flowers in general, reserving the 

 functions of the Stamens and Pistils, with 

 the Linnasan experiments and inquiries re- 

 lative to that curious subject, for the next 

 chapter. 



A flower furnished with both calyx and 

 corolla is called jios completua, a complete 

 flower ; when the latter is wanting, incom- 

 pletus ; and Avhen the corolla is present with- 

 out the calyx, nudus^ naked. When the 

 stamens and pistils are both, as usual, in one 

 flower, that flower is called perfect, or united ; 

 when- they are situated in diflerent flowers of 

 the same species, such I would call separated 

 flowers; that which has the stamens being 

 named the barren flower, as producing no 

 fruit in itself, and that with pistils tlie fertile 

 one, as bearing the seed. If this separation 

 extends no further than to different situa- 

 tions on the same individual plant, Linnaeus 

 calls such flowers monoid, monoecious, as 

 confined to one house or dwelling: if the 

 barren and fertile flov.ers grow from two se- 

 parate roots, they are said to be diokiy dice- 



