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CXXII. COMPOSITE. 



Salsify. 



Fruit crowned by a 

 calyx with a feathery 



tuft, and 

 shortly stipitate. 



Chicory. 

 Fruit crowned by 



a short 



paleated calyx 

 (mag.). 



Chicory. 

 Fruit cut 



vertically, shewing 



the upright seed 



(mag.). 



Corolla and androacium 

 laid open (mag.). 



Ncuiauvia. 



Flower with bilabiate corolla 

 (mag.). 





ffassauvia. 

 Spike (labiatifloral). 



Nassauvia. 

 Stamen (.mag.). 



tfcusauvia. 



Ovary and portion of 

 style (mag.). 



Nassauvia. 

 Style (mag.). 



FLOWERS in an involucrate capitulum. COEOLLA epigynous, monopetalous, isoste- 

 monous, valvate in aestivation. ANTHEES syngenesious. OVAET 1-celled, l-ovuled ; 

 OVULE erect, anatropous. EMBRYO exalbuminous. 



PLANTS generally perennial, mostly herbaceous, sometimes woody below, rarely 

 arborescent. LEAVES generally alternate, often very much cut, rarely compound, 

 exstipulate, but sometimes furnished with stipuliform auricles. CAPITULA some- 

 times few-flowered, very rarely 1 -flowered, generally many-flowered; inflorescence 

 indefinite, but forming collectively a definite inflorescence, in a corymb, cyme or 

 glomerule, and composed of flowers inserted on a common receptacle. RECEPTACLE 

 sometimes furnished with bracteoles (palece, scales, bristles, fimbrilloe), sometimes 

 naked and smooth, or with small pits (foveolate), or deeply pitted (alveolate), with 

 entire or toothed margins, or cut into membranous segments, or covered with 



