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PLATE VI. LETTER VI. 

 COMPOUND ILOIVERS. 

 Fig. i. Bellis perennis. Common Daify. 



a The flower, which is compound and of 

 the radiated kind, having femiflorets 

 or ligulate florets in the raj, and tu» 

 bular florets in the difk. 



b A fe&ion of the receptacle, with the 

 florets on it. 



c A femi-floret. 



d The cylinder of anthers, with the flyle 

 perforating it. 



e A floret. 



Fig. 2. Leontodon Taraxacum. Dandelu 



O 



ion. 



a The whole compound flower, confiding 

 entirely of femi-florets, called by Lin- 

 naeus ligulate florets. 



b A fingle flofcule, or floret. 



c The head of feeds. 

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