Stamen

(sta'měn.) [Lat.] (Bot.) One of the bodies ina flower which secrete pollen, the fructifying principle. Whatever their number, for they vary considerably in this respect, the stamens form a whorl between the petals and the pistils. Each consists of the filament and the anther, the latter containing the fine dust called pollen: the filament or stalk is sometimes absent. Stamford, in Canada W., a town of Well and co., 3 m. N.W. of Niagara Falls. Pop. 2,999.-In Connecticut, a thriving town and watering-place of Fairfield co., on Long Island Sound, 36 m. N.E. of the city of New York. Pop. 9,714. [s. 851]