COHPOSITAE.*) 



Compositae Vaillant in Act. Acodem. Paris. 1718 — 1721. Linn. Orel nat. 21. Leasing, Synopsis ge- 

 nerum Compositamim, Berolini 1832. DC. Prodr. Vol. V., VL et VLL ex parte, Endl. Gen. plant, 

 p. 355. Meissn. Gen. 174. (121). Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. plant. LI. — Synantherae L. CI, Richard 

 in Marth. Catal. hort. hot 1801. p. 85. Cassini Opusc. phytolog. L. 1. — Asteraceae Lindl. Veget. 

 Kingdom 702. — Cassiniaceae Schultz-Bip. variis locis. — Cichoeaceae, Cynarocephalae et Corymbiferae 



Juss. Gen. 168. 171. 177. 



DlCOTYLEDONEAE EPIGYNAE GAMOPETALAE , CALYCE SAEPIUS RUDIMENTARIO NUNC IN PAPPUM CONFORMATO VEL 

 EXCRESCENTE, COROLLA TYPICE 5-MERA TUBULOSA LIGULATA V. BILABIATA, STAMINIBUS TYPICE 5 ALTERNIPETALIS 

 TUBO COROLLINO INSERTIS, ANTHERIS SOLEMNITER INTRORSIS IN TUBUM CONNATIS, STYLO SIMPLICI, STIGMATE PLQ. BIFIDO, 

 OVARIO INFERO 1-LOCULARI, OVULO UNICO ERECTO ANATROPO, FRUCTU IN ACHAENIUM ABEUNTE, SEMINE EXALBUMINOSO, 

 EMBRYONE RECTO. — LlEBBAE FBUTICES V. ABBUSCULAE, FOLIIS VABIIS, FLOBIBUS SOLEMNITEB IN CAPITULA BBACTEIS 

 STEBILIBUS INVOLUCBATA COLLECTIS. 



Flores („flosculi" auctt. plur.) hermaphroditi v. abortu unisexuales, plures v. rarius solitarii, 

 in receptaculo commimi („clinanthio" auctt. plur.) sessiles v. subsessiles, involucro communi („peri- 

 clinio" auctt. plur.) e bracteis („phyllis, phyllariis, squamis" auctt. plur.) 1 — oo-seriatis liberis con- 

 cretisve cincti, capitulum („calathidium v. anthodium" auctt. plus.) florem singulum simulans for- 

 inantes, saepeque singuli intra capitulum bractea paleacea v. setiformi („palea" receptaculi) su- 

 stenti v. setis flmbrillisve cincti. Calycis tubus ovario arete adnatus, limbus nunc omnino abor- 

 tivus nunc saepius ad dentes aristasve 1 — 5 v. ad coronam seu annulum paleaceum v. cartilagi- 

 neum v. ad setas paleasve 1 — oo-seriatas corollae basin cingentes reductus. Corolla supera, 

 gamopetala, tubo tenui elougato brevi v. rarius dilatato v. subnullo, limbo in dentes v. lobos 

 4 — 5 rarius 2 — 3 aestivatione valvatos, aequales v. obliquos v. in labia 2 v. in ligulam extrorsum 

 patentem dispositos plus minus diviso v. interdum in floribus ? truncato v. subnullo v. corolla 

 tota abortiva. Stamina tot quot corollae lobi iisque alterua, tubo corollae inserta; filamenta supra 

 insertionem libera v. rarius monadelpha; antherae lineares v. oblongae, in tubum stylum cin- 

 gentem connatae v. rarius arete conniventes, singulae apice truncatae v. saepissime connectivo 

 producto membranaceo v. mucroniformi appendiculatae, basi integrae bilobae v. sagittatae, lobis 

 auriculisve obtusis acutis v. in mucronem v. appendicem („caudam") ultra loculos productis, auri- 

 culis antherarum contiguarum nunc usque ad apicem counatis nunc liberis fllamentoque appro- 

 ximatis, introrsum 2-loculares, loculis parallelis longitudinaliter dehiscentibus ; pollinis granula 



*) Cliaractercm generalem ordinis benigne conscripsit ill. Georgius Bentham. 

 Compos. I. 



