The Vegetable Individual in its relation to Species, 71 
curialis the female plant bears flowers even on the second axis; 
in the male plant, however,—if I do not misunderstand the in- 
florescence (a spike composed of ‘small glomerules)—this first 
occurs on the third. In Carer dioica, vice versa, the male plant, 
flowers in the second line and the female in the third.* In other 
Stratiotes, Empetrum and Taxus; in the third: Saliz, Popu- 
s, Myrica, Cannabis; in the fourth: Phenix. In Hemp the 
extremely heterogeneous appearance of the inflorescence of the 
male and female plants does not depend upon a division of the 
flowers of the two sexes among different axes, but upon the pro- 
duction of: numerous unessential peduncles in the male inflores- 
cence.t a 
Moneecism necessarily presupposes a succession of shoots (alter- 
nation of generation); in the simplest case at least for one of the 
two sexes, as both cannot be united in the same terminal flower: 
ut vice versa, both may easily appear in determinate (equal or 
unequal) degrees of ramification. ‘Phe most important cirenm- 
Stance to be considered in monecious relations, consists in both 
the sexes (i. e., the shoots which bear them) occurring either sub- 
ordinately or codrdinatel yt for one either arises out of the other, 
or they both spring from acommon mother-stem. In the first ease, 
the female flower nsuall y belongs to the earlier, the male to the 
later (subordinate) generation ; the male flower-shoot springing 
irom the female, as e. g., in Euphorbia, Ricinus and Potertum, 
in which the female flower terminates the main axis, and the 
male occurs as a lateral shoot.|| In Busus the female flosver oc- 
curs as the second, the male as the third axis; in many species 
(of Phyllanthus (e. g., Ph. niruri) the female as the third, the 
* The second axis, which is a complete dwarf or a mere bristly spine bears the so- 
ot ake in the axil of which the female flower is placed, as the third - 
Tr of the succession of ge’ tions, ; 
+ The female flowers Sos placed at the sides of the any branches as branches 
of the second degree. In the same place where one single ower occurs in the fe- 
ced sap a fureately ramified inflorescence ie found in the male, produced by 
branching out of the two bracts of the original flower. 
t Be P hese ane dos “aetgiees in ce soil kingdom, the first ab agi in Al. 
cyonella where tho «+ say 
. al : 
_ i As in all the exam , the messential ndizement of the inflores- 
ence must be dis wich a ocenrs in Ricinus and Poteriwn in the formof lat- 
‘ral female fiowers emitted beneath the terminal female flower tll a ie 
