The elements of botany for beginners and for schools . 250. A blossom Laving stamens and no pistil is a Staminate or Maleflower. Sometimes it is called a Sterile flower, not appropriately, for otherflowers may equally be sterile. One having pistil but no stamens is aPistillate or Female flower. 251. Incomplete Flowers are so namedin contradistinction to complete : they wanteither one or both of the floral of Fig. 230 are incomplete, having ca-lyx but no corolla. So is the flower of Anem-one (Fig. 233), althoughits calyx is colored like acorolla. The flowers ofSaururusorLizards-

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The elements of botany for beginners and for schools . 250. A blossom Laving stamens and no pistil is a Staminate or Maleflower. Sometimes it is called a Sterile flower, not appropriately, for otherflowers may equally be sterile. One having pistil but no stamens is aPistillate or Female flower. 251. Incomplete Flowers are so namedin contradistinction to complete : they wanteither one or both of the floral of Fig. 230 are incomplete, having ca-lyx but no corolla. So is the flower of Anem-one (Fig. 233), althoughits calyx is colored like acorolla. The flowers ofSaururusorLizards-tail, 233although perfect, have neither calyx nor corolla (). Incomplete flowers, accordingly, are Naked or AMamydeom, destitute of both floral en-velopes, as in Fig. 234!, orApetalous, when wanting only the corolla. The case of corolla presentand calyx wholly wanting is extremely rare, although there are seeminginstances. In fact, a single or simple perianth is taken to be a calyx,unless the absence or abortion of a calyx can be made evident.

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