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Androgynous plant. Bearing male and female flowers on 

 the same root, without any mixture of hermaphrodites. 



Anther. A part of the flower, big with pollen or farina, 

 which it emits or explodes when ripe ; or big with 

 granulated pollen, and that with favilla. It forms a 

 part of the stamen, and is placed on the top of the 

 filament. 



Calyx. The outward covering of the flower, or the first 

 of the seven parts of fructification. 



Chive. Properly the stamen. 



Decandria. Ten-stamened. 



Dicecia. The twenty-second class in Linnaeus's system, 

 comprehending those plants which have no hermaphro- 

 dite flowers ; but male and female flowers on distinct 

 plants of the same species. 



Favilla. A fine substance, imperceptible to the naked 

 eye, exploded by the pollen in the anthers of flowers. 



Hermaphrodite flowers. Having both anther and stigma. 

 An hermaphrodite plant is that which has only her- 

 maphrodite flowers. 



Hexandria. The name of the sixth class in Linnaeus's 

 system; comprehending those plants which have her- 

 maphrodite flowers with six equal stamens. This is a 

 natural class. 



Icosandria. The name of the twelfth class in the Lin- 

 nsean system ; comprehending those plants which have 

 hermaphrodite flowers, with twenty or more stamens, 

 growing on the inside of the calyx, not on the recepta- 

 cle ; the situation, and not the number of the stamens, 

 is here to be attended to. The calyx also is monophyl- 

 lous and concave in this class ; and the claws of the 

 petals are fixed into the inside of the calyx. 



Monacia. The name of the twenty-first class in the Lin- 

 nsean system ; comprehending the androgynous plants, 

 or such as produce male and female flowers on the 



