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Fig. 261. Flowers of Anuca: .1. lower part of stem, and upper part bearing a 

 head, in which are seen the conspicuous j'ays and the disk; 1), single ray flower, 

 showing the corolla, tubular at base and strap-shaped above, the two-parted style. 

 the tuft of pappus hairs, and the inferior ovary which devi^lops into a seed-like 

 fruit (akene); E. single disk flower, showing tubular corolla with ^]ir( adiug limb, 

 the two-parted stylo emerging from the top of the stamen tube, the prominent 

 pappus, and the inferior ovary or akene; i\ a single i^tamen. — After Hoffman. 



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