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the 8th and 9th Sections of Jussieus Corymbiferce, 

 the other seven being marked by a naked or scaly 

 Receptacle, winged or naked Seeds, and flosculous 

 or radiated Flowers. The last character is not always 

 well defined, nor free from variation. The change 

 of flosculous, or regular, Florets, into ligulate, or 

 radiant, or tubular and neuter, ones, is, in this tribe, 

 analogous to the change of Stamens or Pistils into 

 Petals, in the generality of double Flowers. Exam- 

 ples of these seven Sections are — 



Sect. I. Receptacle naked. Seed with down, ot 

 crown. Flowers flosculous. Kuhnia, referred by Lin- 

 naeus to his Pentandria Monogynia, because of the 

 separate Anthers ; Cacalia, Eupatorium, Xeranthe- 

 mum, Gnaphalium, Filago, and several others. Mu- 

 tisia and Bamadesia, being evidently radiant, seem 

 misplaced here. In Gnaphalium indeed the marginal 

 Florets are more or less ligulate, though too minute 

 to form a visible Radius. Seriphium, whose Calyx is 

 sino-le-flowered, is well brought hither from the now 

 abolished Linnaean Order, Syngenesia Manogamia, 

 and Stoebe from Syng. Polyg.-segregata. 



Sect. 2. Recept. and Seed as above. Flowers ra- 

 diant. Erigeron, Aster, Inula, fig. 66-69, Tussilago, 

 (whose Radius is very minute,) Senecio, Tagetes, 

 Doronicum, &c. 



Sect. 3. Recept. and Seed naked. Fl. radiant. Ca- 

 lendula, Chrysanthemum, Matricaria, Bellis, &c. 



Sect. 4. Recept. and Seed naked. Fl. flosculous. 



