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CXXII. COMPOSITE. 



Salsify. Chicory. 



Rrnit crowned by a Fruit crowned by 



calyx ■with, a feathery a short 



tuft, and paleated calyx 



.shortly etipitate. imo-g.). 



Chicory. 



Fruit cut 



vertically, showing 



the upright seed 



(mag.). 



yassauvia. 



Corolla and androecium, 



laid open (mag,). 



Jfas&auvia. 



Hower with bilabiate corolla 



(mag.). 



Kassauvia. 

 (labiatifloral). 



Ifmsauvia. 

 Stamen (mag.). 



Nassauvia. 



Ovary and portion of 



style (mag.). 



<£^ 



N^assauvia. 

 Style (mag.). 



Flowers in an involucrate capitulum, Coeolla epigynous, monojpetalouSy isoste- 

 monouSy valvate in cestivation. Anthers syngenesious. Ovary 1-celledy 1-ovuled ; 

 OVULE erecty anatropous, Ebibrto exalhuminous. 



Plants generally perennial, mostly herbaceous, sometimes woody below, rarely 

 arborescent. Leaves generally alternate, often very much cut, rarely compound, 

 exstipulate, but sometimes furnished with stipuliform auricles. Capitul^si some- 

 times few-flowered, very rarely 1 -flowered, generally many-flowered; inflorescence 

 indefinite, but forming collectively a definite inflorescence, in a corymb, cyme or 

 glomerule, and composed of flowers inserted on a common receptacle. Eeoeptaole 

 sometimes furnished with bracteoles {palece, scales^ bristles, fimhrillce), sometimes 

 naked and smooth, or with small pits {foveolate), or deeply pitted {alveolate)^ With 

 entire or toothed margins, or cut into membranous segments, or covered with 



