a male flower; a flower which contains the stamens, reckoned by the sexualists the male organ of generation, but not the stigma or female organ.

All the plants of the clas dioecia of Linnæus have male and female flowers upon different roots: those of the clas monoecia, bear flowers of different sexes on the same root. The plants, therefore, of the former are only male or female: those of the latter are androgynous; that is, contain a mixture of both male and female flowers.