FLOWER. See Flower, Botany Index.

Feminus Flos, a flower which is furnished with the pistil or female organs of generation, but wants the stamens or male organ. Female flowers may be produced apart from the male, either on the same root or on distinct plants. Birch and mulberry are examples of the first case, willow and poplar of the second.

Mæculus Flos, a male flower. By this name Linnaeus and the sexualists distinguish a flower which contains the stamen, reckoned by the sexualists the male organ of generation; but not the stigma or female organ. All the plants of the clas diercia of Linnaeus have male and female flowers upon different roots; those of the clas monoeica bear flowers of different sexes on the same root. The plants, therefore of the former are only male and female; those of the latter are androgynous; that is, contain a mixture of both male and female flowers.

Chemistry, the most subtle part of bodies separated from the more gross parts by sublimation in a dry form.