SEXUAL CHARACTER. 37 
we have noticed, with scrupulous care, these distinct 
characteristics of the various strawberries when in 
blossom, and we have never seen the first symptoms of 
Fig. 1. Fie. 2. Fie 8. 
Fig. 1. A perfect flower furnished with stamens and pistils. a, the stamens, 0. 
the pistils, hermaphrodite. 
Fig. 2. A staminate or male flower. 
Fig. 8. A pistillate or female flower. 
Fic. 4. 
Fig. 4. A perfect flower, with a stamen and pistil detached. a, the anther. 
b, the filament. g, the pistil. 
change in any variety. We do not know that a 
change in open-air cultivation is now much contended 
for from any quarter. We think the mixing of plants 
causes staminate and pistillate blossoms to be seen to- 
gether. In forcing, we are told, by high authority, that 
some plants, like the melon, &c., change their sexual 
character, and why not the strawberry? We do not 
know that this point, that the strawberry does so, has 
yet been fully established. 
