134 AN INE RGDPDCTION 
Antherz; the Stigma bipartite, the Lacinie 
revolute and fpreading afunder. 
PERICARPIUM—No true one, though 
in fome there is a coriaceous * Cruit. 
SEED—A fingle one, oblong, often te- 
tragonous, but commonly narrower at the 
Bafe. It is either crowned, or with the 
Crown wanting. The Crown is of two 
Kinds, either a Pappus, or a Perianthium; 
if a Pappus, it is either feffile, or placed on a 
Stipes; and confifts of many Radii, that are 
placed in a round, and are either fimple, 
radiate, or ramofe; when the Crown is a 
Perianthium, it is fuch as is defcribed above 
under that Head. 
The Effence of a Flofcu/ofe Flower confifts 
in having the Antherz united in a Cylinder, 
and a fingle Seed below the Receptacle of 
the Florett{. The Orders of this Clafs are 
fix, viz. 
* Leathery. 
+ That the Effence of a flofculofe or compound Flower 
doesnot confit either in the common Calyx or Recep- 
tacle Linneus argues from hence, That the common 
Calyx is wanting in Echinops, and the common Recep- 
tacle in Milleria, though both thofe Genera belong to 
this Clafs; and that on the other Hand, the common 
Calyx is found in Scabiofa, and the common Receptacle 
in Dip/acus, both which Plants belong to the Clafs Te- 
trandria, though they have, with the Gomphrena and 
others, been falfly ranged with the compound Flowers, 
OrDER 
