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flowers that are all hermaphrodite, i. e. flowers that contain both sta¬ 
mens (male part) and pistils (female part) in the same blossom as in 
most genera. 
2 Androgynous, male and female, such as upon the same root bear 
both male and female flowers separate, as in the 21st class Monoecia. 
3 Male, such as upon the same root bear male flowers only, as in 
the 22d class Dioecia. 
4 Female, such as upon the same root bear female flowers only, as 
in the 22nd class Dioecia. 
5 Polygamous, such as either on the same, or on different roots, 
bear hermaphrodite flowers, together with either or both sexes, as in 
the 23 class Polygamia. 
Of plants that are polygamous on the same root, there are three 
cases, namely, 
1 Male Hermaphrodite, and Female Hermaprodite flowers. 
2 Hermaphrodite and male flowers. 
3 Hermaphrodite and female flowers. 
Of plants that are polygamous on two distinct roots, the cases are 
four, namely, 
1 Hermaphrodite flowers and male. 
2 Hermaphrodite flowers and female. 
3 Hermaphrodite, flowers, and both male and female. 
4 Androgynous and male. 
Of plants that are polygamous on three distinct roots, the case is 
one, namely. 
Androgynous, male and female. 
F. F. Ashford. 
(To be Continued.) 
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ARTICLE IV. 
Gigantic Specimen of Cockscomb.— (Celosia cristata )— 
grown at Eaton Hall, near Congleton, the seat of G. C. Antrobus, 
Esq. The stem of this plant from the surface of the mould to the 
top of the head thirteen inches and a half, length of the head from 
point to point twenty-eight, and breadth twelve inches, measuring the 
convolutions of the head, (that is, if the head was straightened on a 
board) ten feet and a half; the head is of an elliptical form, and 
