CLASS XIX. 



ANTHERJE UNITED INTO A TUBE. FLOWERS 

 COMPOUND. 



This Class has Jive Orders. 



This Class comprehends those flowers which are 

 called compound. The essential character of a com- 

 pound flower consists of the parts called the antherae, 

 already explained in the previous Classes, being united 

 together so as to form a cylinder, and the filaments 

 separate at the base : c which are, for the most part, 

 rive in number, and inserted into the Corolla. The 

 Dandelion and Thistle are of this kind, composed of 

 a number of small flowers called Florets. To illus- 

 trate the character of this Class, a Floret of the Dan- 

 delion is given, magnified : which plant is also of the 

 first Order. 



COMMON CARLINE is scattered over dry and order r. 



sandy heaths and pastures, and blossoms in June fructiffion 



and July. E^Kfo 



The seeds of this flower, as of many others of this ret, S£hout° ■ 



natural Class, are furnished with a plume, serving of any other^ 



them as wings, which, in different plants, are dif- producing per 

 ferently constructed ; some, like a divergent tuft of hair, 

 others are branched like feathers; some are elevated 



e Those flowers which are composed of Florets where the 

 antbaa are not united into a cylinder, are called aggregate 

 Sowers, as the Scabious, Class IV, and the Teasel, &c 



tcct seed. 



