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suppressed as in the Labiates ; the ovary is superior, 

 and the stigma more or less two-lobed. This curious 

 plant has therefore the inflorescence of a Composite, 

 but the calyx, corolla, and stamens of a Labiate. 



Close at hand the Globe Thistle (Echinops) may 

 be found abundantly; a plant so ornamental that 

 one is surprised it does not attract the attention of 



Fig. 64. GLOBULARIA ALYPUM. 



artists with its soft blue spheres. This well rounded 

 inflorescence is not strictly analogous to that of a 

 Thistle or a Burdock (Arctium), for according to 

 Henslow's beautiful wall diagrams, which hang before 

 me, each floret composing the blue globe represents 

 a separate capitulum. EcMnopsia common from the 

 coast to a height of 3,500 or 4,000 feet above sea-level. 



