Having thus explained the various organs of fructification, we shall add a few remarks concerning flowers in general, reserving the functions of the Stamens and Pistils, with the Linnæan experiments and inquiries relative to that curious subject, for the next chapter.
A flower furnished with both calyx and corolla is called flos completus, a complete flower; when the latter is wanting, incompletus; and when the corolla is present without the calyx, nudus, naked. When the stamens and pistils are both, as usual, in one flower, that flower is called perfect, or united; when they are situated in different flowers of the same species, such I would call separated flowers; that which has the stamens being named the barren flower, as producing no fruit in itself, and that with pistils the fertile one, as bearing the seed. If this separation extends no further than to different situations on the same individual plant, Linnæus calls such flowers monoici, monœcious, as confined to one house or dwelling; if the barren and fertile flowers grow from two separate roots, they are said to be dioici, diœ-
