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Pertaining to Flora, or to flowers; made of flowers; as, floral games, wreaths.

In a floral manner.

Having the petals and stamens adnate to the calyx; -- applied to a subclass of dicotyledonous plants in the system of the French botanist Candolle.

Having the stamens borne on the petals, and the latter free from the calyx. Compare Calycifloral and Thalamifloral.

ens on a discoid outgrowth of the receptacle; - - said of a subclass of plants. Cf. Calycifloral.

Having labiate flowers, as the snapdragon.

Bearing the stamens directly on the receptacle; -- said of a subclass of polypetalous dicotyledonous plants in the system of De Candolle.

Three-flowered; having or bearing three flowers; as, a triflorous peduncle.

Without a calyx, or outer floral envelope.

Naked; having no floral envelope, neither calyx nor corolla.

The adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs.

Having the number of floral organs unequal, as four petals and six stamens.

A floral ornament. See Palmette.

Having some portion of the floral envelopes attached to the pericarp to form the fruit, as in the checkerberry, the mulberry, and the pineapple.

The separation of a leaf or floral organ into two more parts.

Having floral ornaments; as, floriated capitals of Gothic pillars.

Any floral ornament or decoration. Rock.

t. 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.

Inclosed; confined. Included stamens (Bot.), such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.

Wanting any of the usual floral organs; -- said of a flower. Incomplete equation (Alg.), an equation some of whose terms are wanting; or one in which the coefficient of some one or more of the powers of the unknown quantity is equal to 0.