in botany, a term for those flowers of plants which have no petals or flower-leaves, but consist only of a number of stamens and pistils placed in a cup.

**STAMP-DUTIES**, certain impositions laid on all parchment and paper, on which deeds, grants, or other instruments, or any process in law or equity, are engrossed or written. These duties, when first granted, were from forty shillings for letters-patent, &c. to sixpence for the usual deeds; and one penny for declarations, pleadings, &c. They have been, in general, doubled and trebled, by subsequent statutes; and the common stamp now is the treble sixpenny. Persons writing or engrossing anything charged with the duty on parchment or paper, before it is stamped, or if it be marked with any lower duty than what is required, are liable to forfeit £1.; and the deed shall not be deemed good in law, till such penalty is paid, and the same be stamped, &c.