COMPOUND FLOWERS. 30? 



cious. Some plants have united flowers and 

 separated ones in the same species, either 

 from one, two or three roots, and such are 

 called polygamous, as making a sort of com- 

 pound household. 



A Compound flower consists of numerous 

 florets, jiosculi, all sessile on a common undi- 

 vided Receptacle, and enclosed in one conti- 

 guous Calyx or Btrianthiittn. It is also 

 essential to this kind of flower that the An- 

 thers should be united into a cylinder, to 

 which only the genus Tussilago affords one or 

 two exceptions, and Kuhnia another ; and 

 moreover, that the Stamens should be 5 to 

 each floret, Sigesbeckia Jloscttlosa of LTIeri- 

 tier, Stirp. Nov. t. 19? alone having but 3. 

 The florets are always monopetalous and su- 

 perior, each standing on a solitary naked 

 seed, or at least the rudiments of one, though 

 not always perfected. Some Compound flow- 

 ers consist of very few florets, as Humeu ele- 

 gans, Exot. Bot. t. 1, Prenqnthes muralis, 

 EnsU Dot t. 457; ethers of many, as the 

 Thistle, Daisy, Sunflower, &c. The florets 

 themselves are of two kinds, ftga Ztftfi, ligulate, 

 sh^p.ed kke a strap or ribband, with 3 ar 5 

 ^ x 2 



