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or the ripe seed of the anemone, we shall find all those parts con- 

 structed in every essential respect like the crowfoot. In this group 

 may also be classed hepaticas, globe-flowers, marsh marigolds, christ- 

 mas-roses, and winter aconites, each differing in one respect or other 

 but possessing the essential characters already explained. The lark- 

 spur, aconite, aid peonies are also plants which come under the same 

 class with the above ; they are, it is true, somewhat more removed in 

 some parts of their conformation, but they have the two essential 

 marks of distinction in their carpels and stamens. 



The last subdivision of this order which we shall enumerate is that 

 which contains the clematisy a genus of climbing plants, of which the 

 species, native to Britain, is known under the name of traveller's joy; 

 and another, which is much cultivated in gardens is commonly called 

 virgin's bower. These are almost the only plants of the order which 

 form woody stems ; they gi'ow in hedges and against walls, their 

 petioles, or leaf stalks, being prolonged as tendrils ; and in spite of 

 the acidity of their juices, their flowers are mostly fragrant. 



The daisy {bellis perennis) may be looked upon as the type of 

 plants, composite, having compound flowers. They belong to the 

 Linnaean class and order syngenesia polygamia, having the anthers 

 united into a tube. 



Rousseau says, *' Take one of those flowers which cover all the 

 pastures, and which every body knows by the name of daisy. Look 

 at it well, for I am sure you would never have guessed from its 

 appearance that this flower, which is so small and delicate, is really 

 composed of between two and three hundred other flowers, all of 

 these perfect — that is, each of them having its corolla, stamens, 

 pistil, and fruit; in a word, as perfect in its species as a flower of 

 the hyacinth or lily. Every one of thase leaves, which are white 

 above and red underneath, and form a kind of crown round the flower, 

 appearing to be nothing more than little petals, are in reality so 

 many true flowers ; and every one of these tiny yellow things also, 

 which you see in the centre, and which at first, perhaps, you have 

 taken for nothing but stamens, are real flowers." 



These are monopotalous corolla, which expand, and a glass will 

 easily discover in them the pistil, and even the anthers with which it 



