AO NATURAL ORDERS AND 
petalous, tubular, inserted into the upper part of the calyx, the limb 
obliquely four or five lobed, with an imbricated estivation. Stamens 
four or five, inserted into the tube of the corolla, and alternate with 
its lobes. Anthers distinct. Ovary one celled, single seeded. Style 
single. Stigma simple. Jruit dry, one celled, crowned by the 
pappus-like calyx. Seed solitary, pendulous. Embryo straight in the 
axis of fleshy albumen; radicle superior.— Herbaceous plants or 
undershrubs. Leaves opposite, or whorled. Flowers collected upon a 
common receptacle, and surrounded by a many leaved involucrum. 
GENERA. 
Fruit with four sides, and eight little 
GepressioNS ......s0,sseecesseeseeeeees DIPSACUS, V. 1. p. 173. 
Fruit with four sides, and four little 
GEPECSSIONS, Cece cusecsoes cadens eae re Kwavris, v. 1. p. 176. 
Fruit nearly cylindrical, and with eight 
CXCAVAtlONS ......00. “Rear erite Scastosa, v. 1. p. 177. 
ORDER XLVI. COMPOSITZ.—Juss. 
Perianth double. Calyx superior, its tube closely adhering to the 
evary, and undistinguished from it, the limb either wanting, or 
membranous, divided into bristles, pale, hairs or feathers, and 
called pappus. Corolla monopetalous, superiér, tubular, and five 
lobed, or tubular, with a bilobate limb, or ligulate, and four or five 
toothed. Stamens usually five, wanting, or rudimentary. Anthers 
erect, united into a tube around the style. Ovary inferior, one 
celled. Style simple. Stigmas two, either distinct or united. Fruit 
a dry one celled pericarp, crowned with the limb of the calyx, articu- 
lated on the receptacle, and generally sessile. Seed solitary, erect. 
Embryo erect, with a taper inferior radicle. Albumen wanting — 
Herbaceous plants or shrubs. Leaves usually simple, without stipules. 
Flowers (called florets) collected into dense heads upon a common 
receptacle, surrounded by an involucrum, and either naked or furnished 
with scales called pale. 
SuB-ORDERS. 
Style not jointed at the end. Flowers all 
tubular, or those of the ray ligulate... 1. CoRYMBIFERER, 
Style jointed at the end. Flowers all 
tubular, or those of the ray ligulate... 2. CyYNAROCEPHALER, 
Style not jointed at the end. Flowers all 
ligulate and perfect ....:.sesseeereeeeese 3 CICHORACER. 
Sup-orDER 1. CoryMBIFERE. 
GENERA. 
Florets of the disk tubular, of the ray ligulate. 
