258 COMPOSIT.E, 
losa, apice obsoliti 3-loba et stylo ordinario ramis exsertis. 
Flores squamarum interiorum pappigeri abortivi, stylo in 
tubo incluso. 
Flores summi masculi, vere terminales? in receptaculo 
rugoso nudi an ob abortion. squamarum radii. Ovarium ut 
in floribus femin.  abortionis. Pappus idem, dentatus 
Corolla tubulosa, apice 4-fida, venatio Brunoniana. An- 
there 4, basi et apice, appendiculate, medium tubi versus 
exsertz, Stylus clavatus apice pubescens. 
Fructus oblongus subcompressus, corolla in axillis squama- 
rum exteriorum et stylo dentius persistente, hujus ramis 
forsan elongatis, glandulosum. 
Seminis tegumenti unicum embryonarium solubile. Em- 
bryo ordinis. 
1. Plant natural sige. 
. 2. Head of inflorescence. 
3. One of its component parts detached, 
4. Portion of do. shewing the structure of the capitulum. 
5. Portion of do. shewing the nakedness of the male 
flowers, the suffultion by a bracte of the remainder, and 
the change in structure in these as we proceed upwards. 
6. Female flowers and its bracte, the stigmata are anterior 
and posterior. 
7. Female flower detached shewing the want of pappus, 
and the small development of the corolla. 
7a. Ovarium viewed under pressure. 
a. Calyx, its wall glandular colored and furnished with 
two vascular facicles which send two branches into 
the corolla, and a corresponding number to the style. 
b. Very fine evascular pure membrane which I consider 
to be the ovarial wall and which is detachable by 
pressure, although evidently attached to the base 
the style, c. ovule. 
8. Imaginary section of female flower not carried through 
the ovulum. I will not answer for the correctness of 
the situation of the ovule. 
