Compositae. 
rounded at the top, with a small ter- 
minal areola and no pappus 
2. Female flowers apetalous merely naked 
pistils; achenes abecompressed, not pointed 
with a persistent style, those of the female - 
flowers stalked. .... 
VII. Senecioneae. 
Heads heterogamous with ligulate, rarely filiform, 
ray-corollas, ore sometimes homogamous and 
discoid; the flowers perfect or rarely staminate, 
and with regular tubular corollas. Receptacle 
not chaffy. Anthers often sagittate at the base, 
but without tails. Branches of the style in 
perfect flowers mostly with truncate, or some- 
what capitate, or obtuse tips, rarely with any 
distinct appendage. Pappus of numerous usually 
very fine and soft capillary bristles. Leaves 
mostly alternate. Involucre almost always of 
equal herbaceous scales, in one or two series, 
or with some short ones or bracts added. 
Flowers usually yellow. 
IX. Calenduleae. 
Heads heterogamous radiate; flowers of the ray 
female, fertile, in 1—2 rows; flowers of the 
disk bisexual. Involuecral bracts narrow, in 
1—2 rows, herbaceous or membranous, usually 
secarious on the margins. Receptacle naked. 
Corollas of the ray-flowers ligulate, entire or 
3-dentate at the tip; corollas of the disk-flowers 
regular, tubular, shortly 5-cleft. Anthers sagit- 
tate with mucronate auricles or subentire and 
obtuse. Style of the bisexual flowers undivided 
and rounded at the apex or with 2 short flattened 
truncate branches; style of the female florets 
bidentate or undivided. Achenes of the ray- 
flowers large, winged or subterete; those of the 
disk effete. Pappus 0. — Herbs or shrubs with 
alternate or occasionally opposite leaves and 
yellow or purple flowers . 
X. Arctotideae. 
Heads heterogamous radiate or rarely homogamous 
by deficiency of the ray-flowers; ray-flowers 
44, Artemisia. 
45. Cotula. 
46. Senecio. 
47. Calendula. 
