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E found, you remember, 
that the dandelion head 
was made up entirely of strap 
flowers; and we saw that the 
daisy and aster and golden-rod were 
made up partly of strap flowers, and 
partly of tube flowers. : 
And here you have a great thistle 
head (Fig. 274). If you 
should pull it to pieces, you would find 
only tube flowers. 
The Composite family always makes 
up its head in one of these three ways, 
using either nothing but strap flowers, or 
nothing but tube flowers, or else using tube ; 
flowers for the center of the head, and strap Fic. 274 
flowers for the outside. 
Now, I hope you will remember these three ways in 
which this important family puts together its little flowers. 
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