Cl. 10.] CINAROCEPMAUE, CORYMBIl-EIwE. 121 



Ord. 54. CINAROCEPH ALA;, fig. 61-65. "Florets 



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all flosculous, sometimes all perfect; sometimes partly 

 neuter, fig. 64, or partly fertile, mixed with the perfect 

 ones. Common Calyx of many rows of imbricated 

 scales, either spinous or unarmed. Common Recep- 

 tacle hairy, fig. 62, or more usually scaly. Neuter Flo- 

 rets, fig. 64, often irregular ; the rest, fig. 65, regular, 

 5-cleft and pentandrous, with a simple or divided 

 Stigma, often continuous, not jointed, with the Style. 

 Seed with a hairy, fig. 62, or feathery Down. Stem 

 herbaceous, rarely shrubby. Leaves alternate, often 

 spinous. Flowers various in colour, terminal, rarely 

 axillary." 



These make the 2d, or capitate, Section of the same 

 Class and Order of Linnseus, of which Carlina, Cni- 

 cus, Cardans, fig. 61, 62, and Serratula are examples: 

 part of his 3d Order, Polygavnia-frustranea, is like- 

 wise included, and part of his 5th. Polygamia-segre- 

 gata, certainly with very great advantage. 



Ord. 55. CORYMBIFER^E, fig. 66-69. " Flowers 

 either altogether flosculous, or radiated, fig. 66; the 

 Florets of the Disk, in the latter case, being flosculous, 

 fig. 68, those of the Margin ligulate, fig. 67. The floscu- 

 lous ones are either all perfect, or the marginal ones are 

 fertile or neuter; more rarely the central ones have Sta- 

 mens only, the marginal ones only Pistils. The radiant 

 Flowers never consist entirely of united Florets, but 

 for the most part those of the disk arc such, the rays 

 being either furnished with perfect or imperfect Pistils, 



