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ut having some hermaphrodite or perfect flowers on an individual plant which bears mostly pistillate flowers.

The pistils of a flower, taken collectively. See Illust. of Carpophore.

The pedicel raising the pistil or ovary above the stamens, as in the passion flower. Lindley.

A Linnæan order of plants having seven pistils.

Having seven pistils.

ing the parts of generation of both sexes, as when a flower contains both the stamens and pistil within the same calyx, or on the same receptacle. In some cases reproduction may take place without the union of the distinct individuals. In the animal kingdom true hermaphrodites are found only among the invertebrates. Se…

he condition of having two or more kinds of flowers which differ in regard to stamens and pistils, as in the aster.

n of having two or more kinds of flowers, different as to the length of their stamens and pistils.

A Linnæan order of plants having six pistils.

Having six pistils.

Having all the flowers of a plant alike in respect to the stamens and pistils.

Having only one form of pistils; -- said of the flowers of some plants. Darwin.

Inserted below the pistil or pistils; -- said of sepals, petals, and stamens; having the sepals, petals, and stamens inserted below the pistil; -- said of a flower or a plant. Gray.

mate word. Illegitimate fertilization, or Illegitimate union (Bot.), the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers. Darwin.

e of the fifth and forth. -- Imperfect flower (Bot.), a flower wanting either stamens or pistils. Gray. -- Imperfect interval (Mus.), one a semitone less than perfect; as, an imperfect fifth. -- Imperfect number (Math.), a number either greater or less than the sum of its several divisors; in the former case, it is…

st petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and inclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina. See Carina.

system in which the classes are founded mainly upon the stamens, and the orders upon the pistils; the artificial or sexual system.

Hermaphrodite, or having both stamens and pistils in every flower.

A Linnæan class of plants, whose stamens and pistils are in distinct flowers in the same plant.

Composed of solitary parts, as a flower with one sepal, one petal, one stamen, and one pistil.