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at the base by about three whorls of bracts which decrease in length 

 inwards, the outer and longest l)eing about as long as the flowers. 

 The flowers of the head are all nearly of the same size and form. 

 Each one is enclosed in a tubular whorl of united bracts with small 

 teeth. This whorl might easily be mistaken for a calyx by those 



THE WILD CARROT. 



who are not acquainted with the general features of the flowers of 

 this order, but the calyx is really combined with the ovary, its 

 four bristly teeth being very conspicuous round the top of the fruit. 

 The corolla is tubular, deeply cleft into four lobes ; and four stamens 

 are inserted into its tube. The fruit is small and seedhke, and does 

 not split. This plant flowers from July to September or October. 

 Coming now to the Composihe, we have a considerable number 



