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have called thaem. Acts xiii. 2. Separated flowers (Bot.), flowers which have stamens and pistils in separate flowers; diclinous flowers. Gray.

The capability in plants of fertilizing or of being fertilized; as, staminate and pistillate flowers are of opposite sexes.

oposed by Linnæus, founded mainly on difference in number and position of the stamens and pistils of plants. -- Sexual selection (Biol.), the selective preference of one sex for certain characteristics in the other, such as bright colors, musical notes, etc.; also, the selection which results from certain individuals…

Having stamens, but lacking pistils.

That part of a pistil which has no epidermis, and is fitted to receive the pollen. It is usually the terminal portion, and is commonly somewhat glutinous or viscid. See Illust. of Stamen and of Flower.

The stalk of a pistil.

The elongated part of a pistil between the ovary and the stigma. See Illust. of Stamen, and of Pistil.

Having stamens and pistil in the same head, or, in mosses, having antheridia and archegonia on the same receptacle.

A Linnæan order of plants having three pistils or styles.

Having three pistils or styles; of or pertaining to the Trigynia.

f flowers on the same or on different plants, some of the flowers being staminate, others pistillate, and others both staminate and pistillate; belonging to the order Trioecia.

n. (Eccl.) See Moravian, n. -- United flowers (Bot.), flowers which have the stamens and pistils in the same flower. -- The United Kingdom, Great Britain and Ireland; -- so named since January 1, 1801, when the Legislative Union went into operation. -- United Greeks (Eccl.), those members of the Greek Church who ack…