INCOMPLETE FLOWERS. 



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But now compare 

 also Fig. 153 /;. b 

 is the stalk bear- 

 ing the flowers, the 

 middle ring being 

 s tameniferous 

 flowers, the lowest 

 ring the pistiliferous 

 flowers, the upper 

 ring imperfect flowers. 

 So the flowers of 

 the hazel or of the 

 arum (cuckoo pint) 

 are called monce- 

 cious* because whilst 

 the stamens and 



Fig. 104. Flowers of Hazel ; A, 

 single flower from the stamtniferous 

 catkin ; s, the scale ; fa, the sta- 

 mens ; f, the filaments ; a, the an- 

 thers ; B, pistiliferous flowers en- 

 closed in bract scales, s ; with pro- 

 jecting tips of their pistils, ;/ ; c, 

 single pistiliferous flower from B, 

 surrounded by its bracts, c, with 

 tips of pistil, // (magnified). 



pistil are in different flowers, both the stamen bearing- 

 flowers and the pistil bearing flowers, live as it were, 

 in one house, that is upon one plant. 



But sometimes they live as it were in two houses, 

 that is upon different plants : then they are called 

 dicecious* We should have an instance of this if we 

 could find the common yew tree in bloom (Fig. 174), 

 or some willow trees, or the common hop (Fig, 105). 

 But you very likely know the difference in the 

 flowers upon the willow trees, several kinds of 

 which are commonly called palms.f If you 



* From the Greek " monos" one; " dis" twice, double; and 

 " oikion" a house. 



f The true Palm trees are foreigners. There is a picture of one in 

 Fig. 134- 



