$99 SYNGENESIA, 
_ Leafy, when a single row of equal and longer segments. 
stands next to the florets, and another row of y 
_ small scales surrounds the base only of those segments, 
as in Daisey. 
The structure of the FLorers which compose a com- | 
pound flower, will be best understood by pulling to pieces 
the flower of a Thistle, of Dandelion, or of the Sunflower, 
and ames the florets with the following 
atural Character of a FvoRet. 
Car. none, but the crown of the seed sitting upon the top 
of the germen. 
Buoss. 1 petal. Tube very slender and long, sitting - 
the getmen. (It is either) ne 
ULA nari Sega 5 clefts. | 
* wah 7 
, dings as in THistTLE or Burpoor. 
2 oe pata at, peat 
lopped at i ae ena is ‘<i ther entire, or m 
with: 3. or,5.teeth, as in.D ELION oF, RS 
3. None. Border Santing, and tne deg petal IS 
g,aiteuaahys detowmt 5, hair-like short, xed fixed to e 
T-l) e 
neck of the little » pace >yery 5,1 ms hy 
Pay oes | ona YO nee y 
er, as as the border, blossom 
at the top sath $ toert 2 re "ee 
Pist. Gowen discs, standing under the little ble 
upap, the spramon receptacle. . Style threa 
upright, as long as the stamens, passing, th 
hollow avian formed. Rages oan ve 
vided, the segments rolled hack and expandi 
S. a Se ly spcaking, none; though, in O )steos 
and Strumpfia, (fi (foreign eee te. bes 80 
de ling ay iG Bi Boiae 
is permanent. : 
- neither with a Cup, nor ‘with ye T 
Oss. In examining the minuter florets, the Dissee 
— and the Botanic Microscope, will be found x emery 
use o£ dees, 
