GAMOPETALE 129 
The lilac flowers open first in the centre of the 
flower-head. The involucre contains numerous 
exserted scales ; the bristles are curved upwards, and 
are longer than the flowers. The flower-head is 
conical. The calyx is patelliform. 
Four to five feet is the usual height of the teasel. 
Flowers may be found in July. 
The anthers mature first, the tube of the flower 
being long. The style is bilobed, the lobes being 
intermixed. The stigmatic papille are numerous, 
one or more being abortive. Radiating spines cover 
the stigma, overtopping the anthers and stigmas so 
that a bee does not touch them with its ventral 
surface, but with its head when inserting it in the 
flower, one stigma being in the way of the other, so 
that for the stigmatic surface to be rubbed by the 
bee it is of advantage that one be abortive. Species 
of Humble bee are frequent visitors. 
A parachute arrangement is provided for the 
dispersal of the seeds, which are scattered by the 
agency of the wind. 
Adam’s Flannel, Barber’s Brushes, Sweep’s 
Brushes, Card Teasel, Card Thistle, Church Brooms, 
Gipsy’s Combs, Prickly Back, Tazzel, Venus Bath or 
Basin are names given to this Teasel. | 
THE DANDELION GROUP. 
The Compositz, as the name indicates, consist of 
an order in which the so-called or apparent flower is 
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