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ably from DeCandolle's arrangement. My object in doing so was to 

 render tbem more compendious, the alteration in form better enabling 

 me to retrench superfluities, and at the same time give greater preci- 

 sion, by placing the strongest points of each at the beginning. The 

 characters taken from the capitula, flowers, achsenia, and pappus — - 

 which are really the essential ones — occupy the first rank : while 

 those taken from the vegetation generally, including the texture and 

 duration of the stem, form, and position of the leaves, peculiarities 

 of the inflorescence, the receptacle and its clothing, and the colour 

 of the flowers, are uniformly referred to the second. By following 

 this plan, the characters are in fact completely re-cast, and, though 

 still made up of the original materials, are, I think, rendered of much 

 more easy application in practice, and to that extent at least are im- 

 proved. 



According to DeCandolle's classification, the whole family is divided 

 into three primary groups or sub-orders, viz. TubuliJZore, Labiatijlo- 

 rce, and Liguliflorce. 



These are again divided into " eight tribes," each of which are 

 still further divided into " sub-tribes" and " divisions." 



The characters of the tribes and sub-tribes are admitted into this 

 Synopsis, but only occasionally the lower divisions, the comparative- 

 ly small number of genera not requiring the aid of so much sub- 

 division to facilitate the working out of any genus.] 



Notes on Indian Botany. By Robert Wight, M.D., F.L.S., 

 Member of the Imp. Acad. Nat. Curios, of the Royal Bot. 

 Soc. of Ratisbon, fyc. fyc. 



* Tubuliflore. Hermaphrodite flowers tubular regular 

 5 (rarely 4) toothed. [In this division all sorts of flowers 

 occur, hermaphrodite, female and male, possibly sometimes 

 all in the same capitulum — two kinds very generally, female 

 and hermaphrodite — the character is however limited to the 

 hermaphrodite flowers.] 



Tribe 1st. Vernoniace^:. Style of the hermaphrodite 

 flowers cylindrical, branches usually elongated, subulate, 





