![]() ![]() Sometimes also the lamium is intire, and sometimes jagged or divided. but most commonly the upper lip is convex above, and turns the hollow part down to its fellow below, and so represents a kind of helmet, or monkshood and from thence these are frequently called galeate, cucullate, and galericulate flowers and in this form are the flowers of the lamium, and most verticillate plants. A monopetalous difform flower is likewise further divided into, first, semi-fistular, whose upper part resembles a pipe cut off obliquely, as in the arilostochia: 2d, labiate and this either with one lip only, as in the acanthum and scordium, or w th two lips, as in the far greater part of the labiate flowers: and here the upper lip is sometimes turned upwards, and so turns the convex part downwards, as in the chamæcissus, &c. or polypetalous, which have distinct petala, and those falling off singly, and not all together, as the seeming petala of monopetalous flowers always do: but those are further divided into uniform and difform flowers: the former have their right and left hand parts, and the forward and backward parts all alike but the difform have no such regularity, as in the flowers of sage, deadnettle, &c. Simple flowers are monopetalous, which have the body of the flower all of one intire leaf, though sometimes cut or divided a little way into many seeming petala, or leaves as in borage, bugloss, &c. Perfect flowers are divided into simple ones, which are not composed of other smaller ones, and which usually have but one single style and compounded, which consist of many flosculi, all making but one flower. Such are reckoned perfect flowers which have petala, a stamen, apex and stylus and whatever flower wants either of these is reckoned imperfect. The part of a plant which contains the seeds. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Rate this definition: 0.0 / 0 votesĮtymology: fleur, French flos, flores, Latin.
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