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each with its one little ovary or seed, and the little 

 feathery tarroundingB which represent the calysj- 

 for bear ia mind that the green covering which 

 incloses the huds (Pig. 49, d) and holds the ex- 

 panded flower ia not a calyx ; but of that more 

 hereafter. Look at your dissected colt's-foot blos- 



Fia, 49. — GEeatly-magnified vi^w of three florets of common Colt's-foot. a 

 tQbnlar floret of disk, with both stamens and pistil, e ; b, bud ; d^ strap- 

 shaped floret of ray, without stamens, but with pistil,^j i, bracts of in- 

 volucre ; fff seed or achene,. sorrouuded by the feathery oalyx or pappus, k ; 

 h, common receptacle. 



som again with your magnifying-lens, or, failing 

 the blossom, at the figure. The first thiag that will 

 strike you is, that the little florets in the middle 

 are very difierent from those at the circumference 

 (Fig. 49, a, c). The little central flower is as 

 perfect, aye, and as beautiful, a little flower as can 

 be, except that its calyx is not quite after the 



