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or organs which belong to it or to the typical form; having calyx, corolla, stamens, and pistil.

Having the quality or power of conducting; as, the conductive tissue of a pistil. The ovarian walls . . . are seen to be distinctly conductive. Goodale (Gray's Bot. ).

The series or division of flowerless plants, or those never having true stamens and pistils, but propagated by spores of various kinds.

The condition of certain species of plants, in which the stamens and pistil do not mature simultaneously, so that these plants can never fertilize themselves.

Having the stamens and pistils in separate flowers. Gray.

A Linnæan class of plants having the stamens and pistils on different plants.

A part of the receptacle enlarged or expanded under, or around, or even on top of, the pistil.

mber, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. The white water lily and some other plants have their blossoms naturally double.

Having eleven pistils; as, an endecagynous flower.

Having or producing nine pistils or styles; -- said of a flower or plant.

organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.

rless plants; fecundation; impregnation. Close fertilization (Bot.), the fertilization of pistils by pollen derived from the stamens of the same blossom. -- Cross fertilization, fertilization by pollen from some other blossom. See under Cross, a.

The slender styles of the pistillate flowers of maize; also called silk.

liar parts or not. A complete flower consists of two essential parts, the stamens and the pistil, and two floral envelopes, the corolla and callyx. In mosses the flowers consist of a few special leaves surrounding or subtending organs called archegonia. See Blossom, and Corolla.

gia. They usually grow in wet places. -- Flowering plants, plants which have stamens and pistils, and produce true seeds; phenogamous plants; -- distinguished from flowerless plants. -- Flowering rush, a European rushlike plant (Butomus umbellatus), with an umbel of rosy blossoms.

ving elegant drooping flowers, with four sepals, four petals, eight stamens, and a single pistil. They are natives of Mexico and South America. Double-flowered varieties are now common in cultivation.

A plant having the stamens inserted in the pistil.

lass of plants in the Linnaean system, whose stamens grow out of, or are united with, the pistil.

Having stamens inserted in the pistil; belonging to the class Gynandria.

ertaining to an abnormal condition of the flower, in which the stamens are converted into pistils. A. Brown.