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Futuers’ Dipsacus. 
F 
Fr. Chardon a 
dencha. 
Stem 4- a = Fong branched. 
of flo =a pened ws or "elliptical ; corolla pale purple. 
WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
Fullers’ Teasel. 
oulon. Germ. Aechte Kartendistel. 
Span. Car- 
Radical leaves obovate, narrowed to a 
Leaflets of the involucre lanceolate, ae 
Bracts or chaft 
perfoliate. 
of the receptacle cuneate-oblong, — bristly-ciliate on the margin, terminating ina 
agen 
2. a ~ panes) 
cultiv: € 0 
of Europe. Fl. July. Fr. September. 
is species is cultivated Pa. by some cloth manufacturers, for the 
the rigid recurved points of the chaffy bracts, on 
Obs. nae 
sake of the heads,— 
the ma 
oth 
, Serving as a kind of card, to raise the nap on n woollen 
Orper XL. COMPOS’IT®. (Comrosrre Famy.) 
Mostly herbs, with alternate or ¢ 
leaves without sti 
ipules, rs in 
leaflets or scales, which foro 
or border 
- 4 
The flowers are either polygamous, moncecious or picts gs 
ribi this 
above, used in desc 
shaped corollas are per 
The tubular Sagi 
gether “the involuere are 
grow upon the 
os P the ese j 
‘of h 
ve ake r and ce (rarely 3- 
— 
eceptacle, ia the J tege are called 
ine v. often lobed or dissected (never truly compound) 
le, and pra ta 
to the 
Ste Selott one y 4), spe on the cor Hla. 5; 
Fruit an eben 
con ntaining a single erect 
bond one-tenth of the known ness of flowering plants. 
Aside fr: 
well to me ntion that the strap- 
, whatever their ne 
in Gray’s Manual, is 
up, but the genera as Reseribad are placed in sae Boge order. 
enera, an artife ial 
In this te systematic arrangeme 
The * aid *% pre’ 
appe se 
to Erigeron and Senecio refer to sections of those 
Sus-orper 1. Tusvunir.ora. 
ect flowers tubular, regularly 5- (rarely 3-4-) lobed ; strap-shaped 
(ligulate) onl the marginal or fs eens, yi wien pesca are either pistillate 
only or neutral (wi 
F Pappus 
Pappus double, the outer yery short, the oot of longer bristles. 
1. VERNONIA. 
se, simple, t oe bristles all of the 
many-fio 
when the 
5 pc smooth, 
flowers are pulled 
Akenos wrinkled." Paps OF ich ph Sea = toe 
enes . Pappus an « DARPA ey 
Receptacle deeply honeycomb-like. 26. OxoroRDos ! 
