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PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES ON 



Fig. 5 shows a large flower which, by its elongated dimple is 

 clearly the result of previous fusions, but which is gradually 

 altering to a circular form. 





Fig. 5. Large Pyretheum flower, with elongated dimple. 

 Finally, Fig. 6 shows a large circular Pyrethrum, with a 

 perfect circle of ray florets, and a circular disk with a dimple in 

 its centre.* 



Fig. 6. Disk become wholly circular after fusion, with a round dimple in 



the centre. 



♦ This is the Jinished flower, the result of ancestral amalgamations. 



