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ther naked, villofe, or paleaceous. — The claf- 

 fical character of the FlofcuU is, Calyx, afmall 

 Perianthium, frequently quinquedentate, per- 

 fifting, fixed on the apex of the Germen, and 

 becoming the Corona of the feed. Corolla, 

 monopetalous, with a very narrow, long tube, 

 fixed on the Germen ; it is either tubulate, with 

 the limb campanulate and quinquefid, and the 

 Lacinia fpreading and reflexed ; or liguhitc, 

 with the limb linear, plane, turned outwards, 

 the apex entire, tridentate, or quinquedentate, 

 truncated ; or wanting, having no limb, and 

 frequently no tube. Stamina, Filamenta five, 

 eapillary, yery fliprt, inferted in the neck of 

 the corollula ; Anthera five, linear, ereft, form- 

 ing by their union a tubulated cylinder, quin- 

 quedentate, of the fame length of the limb, 

 PiSTiLLUM, Germen oblong, imder the Rece- 

 ptaculutn of the flower'; Stylui filiform, ertft, 

 of the length of the Stamina perforating the 

 Cylinder of the Antheree ; Stigma bipartite, the 

 lacinite revolute, fpreading. Pkric arpium, 

 no real one, yet in fome inllances a coriaceous 

 crufl:. Seed, one, oblong, often tetragonous, 

 frequently narrower at the bafe ; if, inftead of 

 a Perianthium, it be crowned with a Pappus, it 

 will be found to confift of many radii in a cir- 

 cle, which are either fimple, radiate, or rg.- 

 mofe : this Pappus is either felfile or fixed vpon 



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