HERMAPHRODITE Flowers, in Botany. These are so called by the sexualists on account of their containing both the anther and stigma, the supposed organs of generation, within the same calyx and petals. Of this kind are the flowers of all the classes in Linnaeus's sexual method, except the classes monocasia and dicasia; in the former of which, male and female flowers are produced on the same root; in the latter, in distinct plants from the same seed. In the class polygamia, there are always hermaphrodite flowers mixed with male or female, or both, either on the same or distinct roots. In the plain-tree the flowers are all hermaphrodite; in some, however, the anther or male organ, in others the stigma or female organ, proves abortive. The flowers in the former class are styled female hermaphrodites; in the latter, male hermaphrodites.—Hermaphrodites are thus as frequent in the vegetable kingdom as they are rare and scarce in the animal one.