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Onopordum, f. 977, cellular like a honey-comb, / 

 209. On this and the seed-down are founded the 

 most solid generic characters of these plants, admira- 

 bly illustrated by -the -iniiftitabi© Gcertner. 



The term Receptacle is sometimes extended by 

 Linnjeus to express the base of a flower, or even its 

 internal part between the stamens and pistils, provid- 

 ed there be any thing remarkable in such parts, with^ 

 out reference to the foundation of the whole fructifi^ 

 cation. It also expresses the part to which the seeds 

 are attached in a seed-vessel. 



Having thus explained the various organs of fructifi- 

 cation, we shall add a few remarks concerning flowers in 

 general, reserving the functions of the Stamens and Pis- 

 tils, with tl>e Linnajan experiments and inquiries relative 

 to that curious subject, for the next chapter. 



A flower furnished with both calyx and corolla is cal- 

 ledjlos completus, a complete fiov.'er ; when the latter is 

 wanting, incompletus ; and when the corolla is present 

 without the calyx, nudusj naked. When the stamens 

 and pistils are both, as usual, in one flower, that flower 

 is called perfect, or united ; when they are situated in 

 difierent flowers of the same species, such I would call 

 separated flowers ; that which has the stamens being 

 named the barren flower, as producing no fruit in itself, 

 and that with pistils the fertile one, as bearing the seed. 

 If this separation extends no further than to different sit- 

 uations on the same individual plant, Linnseus calls 



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