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tubulate, with the limb campanulate and quinquefid, 

 and the laciniae spreading and turning back ; ligulate, 

 with the limb linear, plane, turned outwards, and the 

 top whole; trident ate ; or quinquedentate ; QY want- 

 ing, having no limb, and often no tube. 



STAMINA The filaments five, capillary, very 

 short, inserted in the neck of the corollulae. The an- 

 therae, five, linear, erect ; and by the union of their 

 sides forming a cylinder, "that, is tubulate, quinque- 

 dentate, and of the length of the limb. 



PISTILLUM The gerrnen oblong, placed under 

 the receptacle of the flower ; the style filiform, erect, 

 of the length of the stamina, and perforating the cy- 

 linder of the antherae. The stigma bipartite, the la- 

 ciniae revolute, and spreading asunder. 



PERICARP i DM No true one, though in some 

 there is a coriaceous (leathery) crust. 



SEH.D A single one, oblong, often tetragonous, 

 but commonly narrower at the base. 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 sessile, or placed on a stipes ; 

 and consists of many radii, that are placed in a round, 

 and are either simple, radiate, or ramose : when the 

 crown is a perianthium, it is such as is described 

 above under that head. 



The essence of a Flosculose flower consists in hav- 

 ing the antherae united in a cylinder, and a single 

 seed below the receptacle of the floret*. Ihe or- 

 ders of this class are six, viz. 



* That the essence of a flosculose or compound flower does 

 not consist either in the common calyx or receptacle, Linnaeus 

 argues from hence : That the common calyx is wanting in 

 Echinops, and the common receptacle in Milleria, thougl^both 

 these'genera belong to this class; and that on the other hand, 

 the common calyx is found in Scabiosa, and the common re- 

 ceptacle in Dipsucus, both which plants belong to the class 

 Tetrandria, though they have, with the Gomphrena and others, 

 been falsely ranged with the compound ilo.wers. 



