410 COMPOSITuE. (composite PAMILlf.) 



Suborder II. LIGUIjIFIiOR^. Flowerets all ligulate (strap-shaped), perfect, 



Fig. 233. * 



(a) A compound flower of Cichorium, belonging to the Liguliflorae, wide open, showing 

 that all the flowerets are strap-shaped, (b) Another of the same before opening showing the 

 involucre, (c) A compound flower laid open to show the involucre and strap-shaped 

 flowerets with their exserted, syngenesious anthers, and bifid styles. 



* Receptacle chaffy. 



Pappus crown-like ; border cremate, muticous, 



o* 2-awned Scolymus 



Pappus plumose ------ Hypochseris 



Pappus hairy ; akenes beaked - . . Rodigia 



* * Receptacle hristly or hairy. 



Pappus chaffy Catenanche 



Pappus hairy or bristly Lagoseris 



* * * Receptacle bristly, sometimes chaffy at margin. 



Pappus of scabrous bristles, plumose at base - Andryala 



* * * * Receptacle naked. 

 Pappus of pales, or pales and bristles, or cup-like, not plumose. 



Akenes obovate or ob-pyramidal - - Cichorium 



80 

 100 



91 



81 

 96 



99 



82 



