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110 
Nov. 
“A COMPLEAT BODY Coo eee 
— The Flower, examined ftriGty, is foutid { to be 
-compos’d of numerous flender Rays, and a Clufter 
of Flofcules in their Centre. It is plac’d in a fealy 
Cup, fram’d-of numerous Parts; and the Seeds 
which follow, are retain’d only in this Cup with- | 
out a Capfule; and are wing’d with Down. 
We have explain’d to the Student already the 
ceneral Nature of radiated Flowers. 
fimilar Cafes, they are an ornamental and defenfive 
Part; but they have no Office in the Impregnation 
of the Seeds, nor are they. to be regarded in 
ss fearching the Clafs of the Plant. 
-thefe, which are tubular, 
expanded at the Mouth; and there divided into. |. 
» That is to be fought in the Flofcules of the 
Thefe are fo many diftinét 
Difk, or Central Part. 
Flowers, and they are here of two feparate Kinds, 
both in their outer Form and in. their internal 
Conftruction. _ 
In the Body of the Difle: are plac’d: many of . 
{mall at the sic 
five Segments. On the Verge, or round it, are 
fet ten or more Flofcules of a different Form, 
tubular and {mall at the Bafe, but at the Rim flat 5 
and plain, terminating in three Points. 
-. Thefe diftin¢é: Kinds of F lofcules are Sniedia in 
many other of the Compofite Flowers, and are 
diftinguith’d by peculiar Names: the hollow ones 
occupying the Centre of the Dik, are call’d tudbu- 
lated; and the flat ones at the Edge, “igulated: 
thefe let the Student retain in his Memory: they. | 
” Charaéter: and the proper Effect of the Enquiry, 
In each of the tubulated Flowers, occupying | is not Neglect, but Wonder. 
' the Centre, are five fhort Filaments, whofe But- 
are the .diftinétive Terms of Science. 
tons coalefce, and form a tubular Body. _ 
In the ligulated Flofcules of the Rim, there are 
no Filaments, but only the Rudiment of the Seed 
with its Stile. 
‘The tubulated F lowers 2S therefore underftood | fon, the Choice is a Matter of Indifference. 
| Cuttings are only to be employ’d when Seeds can- 
| not be had, or when the Impatience of the Pro- 
- | | prietor fers fudd 
.. He fees the Buttons of the | prictor preters Judden to perfect Growths. 
Filaments coalefee, and this declares righ | whether they.be obtain’d from Africa, or fay’d 
e Cha- | 1 APL 
racter of thar Clafs being the Coalefcence of the | — 
to be hermaphrodite, and the ligulated female. 
The tubulated are the only. perfe& ones, and - 
therefore it is in thefe the Student feeks the Cha- 
racters of the Clafs. 
be of the Nineteenth, the Syngenefia 
Buttons into a Cylindric Body. 
feveral Sections in that Clafs it is to be arrang: cd. 
 Thefe Subdivifions are here form’d upon the | 
Manner of the Impregnation. | 
~The Student has obferv’d that the cen or | 
“Tigulated Flowers are deficient in the male Parts: — 
and we have told him. thofe of the tubulated | | 
‘Kind, in the Centre, are her maphrodite ;, that is, 
dae are not defective in the female Parts. 
When he has obferv’d ‘the ConftruGtion of she | | 
“Filiaments and their Buttons, let him remove > 
them, and he will find within the Bale of the | 
m2 ofcule: a compleat Rudiment of the future Seed, 
-awith its fender Style crown’d with a divided Top, | Inftances ; 
| written on this Subject, fwell the Pages with a 
or Stigma; this fhews that all the Parts of Fruc- 
Aification are.in thefe Flowers, and this. explains 
the Manner of Impregnation. 
PB ititen: of the Seed within the fame Flower ; 
The Petals or | 
Rays he is to regard in this no farther than in other. 
dprinkle over it fx Ounces of Salt - 
| turn’d, from Time to Time, and let no Weeds 
}. Seeds be fown. 
and fuch ar it as is fcattered by ie Motion ae NaS 
_ Air, falling cafually into the lioulated or female 
Flowers sf the Rim, which Have’ no male Parts of 
their own, impregnates alfo the Rudiment of the 
Seed that is in them. This give Origin, in the 
LInw AN Syftem, to the Term Poljgamia; that 
is, that the Impregnation of the Seeds perform’d 
in various Manners. 
In this Plant we fee the Bufinels of Frudti+ 
fication could be carry’d on without them; for 
_ the tubulated Flowers have Seeds of their own, 
‘which would ripen-from the Duft of their Buttons. 
Hence rifes a fecond Diftin@tion, which is that 
_ of fuperfiucus: there are Plants of this /yngenefous 
Clafs and of the polygamous Divifion, whofe Cen+ 
tral Flowers, which have the Buttons or Male. 
Part, are defective in the Rudiment of the Seed, 
or in fome of thofe Organs by Means of which it 
fhould be impregnated: in thefe the Duft of the 
Buttons ferves only to impregnate the female 
.Parts in the ligulated Flowers of the Rim. _ 
In this Cafe, the various Diftribution is deem’d 
necefjary, and thence the Origin is taken of a new 
Subdiyifion. 
“It‘is ‘in Diftin@ion from this, the Plant, now 
under Confideration, is call’d one of the polygamous 
fuperfluous Kind. 
It’s Place shetehors in the Linn an Syftem, 
As among the Syngeucfia polygamia fuperflua. 
Let not the curious Reader flight this Difquifi- 
tion; there are many other Plants of the fame 
Culture of the Sunus AsTeER. 
- We have occafionally obferv’d already y, this 
| Plant may be rais’d either from Seeds or Cuttings ; 
| but-the Gardener is not to fuppofe, for that Rea-_ 
The 
We fhall recommend the Method by Seeds: and 
here, the Methed is to be the fame. 
Let a Hot-Bed be prepar’d for them early in | 
: Spring, and at the fame Lime fet this Compott be 
3 It yemains, that he enquire under which of the sti 
Throw in‘a Heap two Buthels of Wood-Pile 
| Earth, one and a half of Mould, from under the 
| Turf.in a rich Pafture; five Pecks, of Sand, and 
j one Peck of wet Duft, from fome Road where 
> | Horfes ftale ; 
mix this very well together, and 
let thele be 
oTow upon them. 
At. the fame Time the Compoft is made, let the 
This is to be. done, and the 
Plants manag’d in the common Way. 
We have defcrib’d this at large now in feveral 
and fhall not, like eehérs who have 
tedious Repetition.’ 
} . From the firft Hot-Bed they are to be tranf. 
~The Duft from the Buttons impregnates the’) planted to a fecond, thence into Pots of this 
| Compoft; and, after that, they are to be expos*d 
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