SLM, COMPO’sITE. 545 
Peduncles much longer than the 
heads, usually by threes at the 
tops of the branches.  Petioles 
reddish next the branches. Heads 
of flowers globular, size of a mar- 
ble. Stipules deciduous. (Don’s 
1015. Cephalanthus occidentalis. 1016, 
Mill.) A bushy shrub. Canada to Florida, in marshy places. Height 
3 ft. to 6 ft. Introduced in 1735. Flowers yellowish white ; July and 
August.. Fruit brownish ; ripe in October. 
Variety. 
= C.o, 2 brachypodus Dec. Prod. iv. p.539.— Leaves elliptic-oblong, 
3 in a whorl, on short petioles. Petioles 3—4 lineslong. There are 
varieties of this, with either glabrous or downy branches. North of 
Mexico, near Rio de la Trinidad and Bejar. 
It will grow in common garden soil, but prefers peat kept moist; and is 
propagated chiefly by seeds, but will also grow by cuttings and layers. It is 
an interesting shrub, from its curious round héads of flowers, and from the 
lateness of the season at which these appear. 
Orpver XLII. COMPO’SITE. 
Ozp. CHAR. Calyx limb membranous or wanting; or divided into bristles, 
palez, or hairs. Corolla 5-toothed or 5-lobed, tubular, ligulate, or bilabiate 
on the top of the ovarium. Anthers combined, rarely free. Ovarium l- 
celled, l-seeded. Style 1. Stigmas 2. Fruit an achenium, crowned by 
the limb of the calyx. Albumen none. Characterised by the cohesion of 
the anthers, and the arrangement of the flowers in involucrated heads on 
acommon receptacle. (G. Don.) 
Leaves simple, or compound, stipulate or exstipulate, deciduous or ever 
green. Flowers grouped in heads ; those in each head so disposed, and so 
environed by an involucre composed of bracteas that corresponds to a 
calyx, as to seem to constitute but one flower. 
The genera that include hardy ligneous species are mostly natives of Eu- 
rope and North America: they are all of the easiest propagation and culture 
in any common garden soil, and are thus contradistinguished : — 
Srz#nevi'né Lessing. Flowers bisexual. Receptacle with chaffy projections. 
Ba’ccnaris R. Br. Flowers dicecious, all tubular. Receptacle naked. Pap- 
pus pilose. : 
I'va L. Flowers monecious, ail tubular. Receptacle flat paleaceous. Achenia 
naked, but horned. 
Sanrout'na L. Receptacle furnished with somewhat flower-clasping palez. 
Achenia naked. : 
Artemt’s14 Cass, Receptacle chafiless. Achenia naked. Heads discoid. 
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