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pistils) and female flowers (with aborted stamens). (4) In 

 Valerian, Field Scabious, the Vine, Lychnis viscaria, 

 Calamintha, Ground Ivy, Mint, Thyme, Marjoram and 

 other Labiates, some plants bear only pseudo-herma- 

 phrodite female flowers in which the stamens are reduced 

 to functionless rudiments ; while (5) Dry as octopetala, 

 Geum montanum, and some other Rosacege, Ranunculacese, 

 &c., have only pseudo-hermaphrodite male flowers on 

 some plants ; and (6) in Rhamnus cathartica, Lychnis 

 diurna, &c., we find pseudo-hermaphrodite male flowers 

 on one plant and pseudo-hermaphrodite female ones on 

 another. In Silene nutans (7) some plants have pseudo- 

 hermaphrodite male, others pseudo-hermaphrodite female, 

 and yet others hermaphrodite flowers only; while (8) in 

 Spircea aruncus some plants bear only pseudo-herma- 

 phrodite female flowers, others only pseudo hermaphrodite 

 males, others only hermaphrodite flowers, and yet others 

 bear both hermaphrodite and pseudo-hermaphrodite males. 

 We thus see that the matter may become very com- 

 plex. In practice it is common to ignore the difference 

 between true diclinisin and pseudo-hermaphroditism 

 (physiological diclinism), and the Thyme, Marjoram, &c., 

 quoted in case (4) above would be termed gyno-dioecious, 

 while the plants of case (2) above, and very many Com- 

 posite (Doronicum, Aster, Inula), with truly herma- 

 phrodite and truly female flowers on the same plant, are 

 alike termed gy no-monoecious. Similarly, Veratrum album 

 with hermaphrodite and truly staminate flowers on the 

 same plant is andro-moncecious, as are also the flowers 

 of case (1) above ; but Veratrum album can be andro- 

 dioecious, and the same term is applied to flowers like 

 those in case (5) above. 



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