The elements of botany for The elements of botany for beginners and for schools elementsofbotany00gray Year: 1887 term is too ambiguous. In these some flowers want the stamens, while others want the pistils. Taking hermaphrodite flowers as the pattern, it is natural to say that the missing organs arc suppressed. This expression is justified by the very numerous cases in which the missing parts are abortive, that is, are represented by rudiments or vestiges, which serve to exemplify the plan, although useless as to office. Unisexual flowers are Monoecious (or Monoicous, i. e. of one household)
The elements of botany for The elements of botany for beginners and for schools elementsofbotany00gray Year: 1887 term is too ambiguous. In these some flowers want the stamens, while others want the pistils. Taking hermaphrodite flowers as the pattern, it is natural to say that the missing organs arc suppressed. This expression is justified by the very numerous cases in which the missing parts are abortive, that is, are represented by rudiments or vestiges, which serve to exemplify the plan, although useless as to office. Unisexual flowers are Monoecious (or Monoicous, i. e. of one household), when flowers of both sorts or sexes are produced by the same individual plant, as in the Ricinus or Castor-oil Plant, Fig. 230. Dioecious (or Dioicous, i. e. of separate households), when the two kinds are borne on different plants; as in Willows, Poplars, Hemp, and Moon- seed, Fig. 231, 232. Polygamous, when the flowers arc some of them perfect, and some staminate or pistillate only. Fio. 230. Unisexual flowers of Castor-oil plant : », sUininate flower ; />, pistillate flower. Fio. 281, staminate, and 232, pistillate flower of Moonseed.
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