

ASTER \ 





i .wis 



tag Ordew, also with the flowen in > 

 ovule, and the anthers being either who! 



In pn j 

 limn-, di |m uding upon tin 

 mil 



cull rating ii 



.1 three: I 



the Hon ts ■•(' which ai 

 in tli<- disk, and 

 cumference; I 

 of which are all ligul 

 narocephake, all wh< 

 flosculous ; i . which ! 

 added another dh 

 biate. Linmeus i mpli _ 

 of the : : r the |": 



defining groups, but this, 

 other parts of r 

 turalist's I 

 ii.. u abandoned; and yet it was not without much 



The condition of the Order had at i :,, d,,. 



'•i of I. inn. an Botanists and the unmethodical im| 

 mentsof more careful observers, like of 



which had not been » en since the days of the Bauhins; but 

 130 an arrangement of much merit was pi \ th< 



German Botanist Lessing, and at a later peri idolle 



the elder applied his acute and logical mind to tliei 

 of the Order. At the pr< » at day the method of th< 



dally founded on that ol Less 5, is universally foil 

 l». Candolle himself Btated it thus :— 



Suborder I. Toboxiflobj ; thai is to say, those in which 

 the hermaphrodite florets, which alone can be n gard 



mal, are tubular, with 5, or rarely 1. equal teeth 



thi se the loll. .win- are distinguished by their stign 



1. VernoniaceeB. Style cylindrical, it- arm- general I \ 



long and subulate, occasionally short and Muni. 

 always covered all over with bristl 



2. Eupatoria© e. Style cylindrical ; it- arm- I 



clavate, with a papillose surface on the outsidi 

 tlk' end. 

 :t. Asteroidese. Style cylindrical ; it- arm- linear, I 

 the outside, equally and finely downy on theiiu 



4. Senetioiden. Style cylindrical ; it-' arm- liin 



fringed at the point, generally truno 

 times extended beyond the fring 

 appendage of some Bort 



5. Cynarese, Style thickened upwards, and often frii 



at the tumour. 



Suborder II. Libiatiflobjb ; that is to say, thoa :. 

 the hermaphrodite florets, or at least the 

 are divided into two lips. Of thi se tlt«- follow 

 tinguished by their stigmas : — 



6. Muti-iacry. Style cylindrical or Bomewhal I 



truncate, wr\ convex on the .>ut- 

 uniform hairiness, or absolutely bald. 

 , . Nassauviacece. Style never tumid ; the 1 1 

 only at the point 



Suborder HI. Liciunoi; v. that i- t.. say, tl 

 8. Cichoracese. 





\\s 



1 CCCCLX \iv._ inv. ' 



1 I . . ■ 1 \\\ - 



tlnia erythropappa Vernoniacea ; 2. \ 



I • ■ . . m 



nepalenab (Cynana , 7. Lencomeris 



