May. 
wwer’d the Charaéters of that Clafs at large ; 
; OF GARDENING. 
green, cover’d with a light ‘Hairynefs, a Foot or 
more in Height, hollow’d, and divided into a-few 
Branches. 
The Leaves are placed fingly at confiderable 
Diftances on this, and are of an ArfoOw-headed 
Shape. They are broadeft at the Bafe, where they | 
furround the Stalk more than half, and fome- | 
times entirely; and they become oradually {mailer 
at the End, where they terminate obtufely : they 
are waved and indented at the Edges, of a pale 
green, with filvery Hairs, and they have high 
whitith Ribs on the Under Surface. 
At the Top of the Stalk and of the Branches 
ftand three or four fmaller Leaves clofer to one 
~ another, and from the Bofom of each rifes.a Stalk 
with two or three Buds for Flowers which open 
in Succeffion. They are large, yellow, and of the 
~ radiated Kind: they have not the Afpeét of Gar- 
den Flowers, yet they are not without Beauty on 
a near Examination. i 
In the Bud the yellow Petals are laid together 
fo as to form a little golden Button ; over which 
the Segments of the Cup, which are much longer, 
' meet in-a loofe but delicate Manner, defending 
without hiding the Rudiment of the Flower. In 
a State a little more advanced toward Ripenefs, 
the Petals open, and fhew, tho’ ftill within, the 
broad Rudiment of the Difk, form’d of pale yel- 
low rifing Dots. 
The Flower full canine is an Inch and half in 
Diameter, form’d of a rounded rifine Difk, 
crowded with innumerable Flofcules, and or a 
circular Series of Rays; the whole enclofed at firft, 
and afterwards defended by a delicate pale green 
Cup... The Flower is yellow throughout, but 
the Difk has fomething of an Orange Ting; and 
the Rays are perfect Gold. 
The Plant is one of the Syngenefious Kind, the 
moft difficult to be underftood by the Srudent of 
: all the Linn an Clafies. 
We have in fome of our firftt Numbers deli- 
and 
fhall take the Opportunity of illuftrating them 
farther by this Flower, in which they are extream- 
ly diftinét and plain. 
The Stalk {wells into a turbinated Lump for 
the Support of the Flower, and from the Head 
of this rife thirty elegant green Leaves, forming 
a Cup which widens all the Way upwards, and is 
of more than half the Length of the Rays of the 
Flower when expanded, 
Thefe Leaves are placed in two Series, an 
outer and’an inner; and they are narrow, fwelled 
at the Bafe, broadétt at a little Diftance above that 
Part, and they terminate in a Point like a Hair. 
Let not. the Student fuppofe it an Error that 
we make thefe Leaves of the Cup thirty, becaufe 
Linn us fays they are about twenty: tis not 
from his Writings we draw the Characters, but 
from Nature. 
The Difk of the Flowers is bold of a vaft 
sie rin of tubular Flofcules, and the circular 
fedtly ffnnitebed hy Each is {mall, oblone, wide 
toward the Top, and at the Rim cut into five 
pointed Segments fpread out like the Rays of a 
Star. ° 
In the Midft appears a kind of upright Co- 
lumn, of a deeper yellow than the Segments: 
this is compofed of the Buttons of the Flower ; 
they are long, flender, and placed regularly Side 
by Side, fo that their Edges join, and they form 
a kind of Cylinder: this is pierced by the Style ; 
whofe Head or Stigma rifes above the Summit of 
the Cylinder to receive the impregnating Powder 
from the Buttons, and is nip’d at the Top. | 
Each of thefe Flofcules has under it a fingle 
Rudiment of a Seed crown’d with a Quantity of 
fine, filky, filvery colour’d Down. This furrounds 
the tubular Part of the F lofcules, and from their 
being clofe fet, is prefs’d every Way regularly and 
evenly round them, fo as to form'a Kind of haky 
Cup to them. | 
The Rudiments of the Seeds are oad clofe 
upon a rifing Receptacle, and they leave Dots be- 
hind them when they are removed. 
This is the perfe€&t Stru€ture of the tubular 
Flofcules, which form the Difk in the Flower : 
we are yet to examine the Rays. 
Thefe are long, flat, narrow, and at the End 
cut into three Parts; they naturally fpread them- 
-felves out ftrait; but when the Flower is decaying 
they turn backward. 
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May. 
Each of thefe Rays has at its Bafe the Rudi-. 
ment alfo of a fingle Seed: from this it rifes a little 
Way tubular, and is there fmall, tender, and whitith: 
from the Rudiment of the Seed fprings a fingle 
thready Style, which rifes a little beyond the tu- 
bular Part, and there fplits into two Heads, 
- The Body is white, and the Heads are yellow. 
There are no Filaments in this F lower, but its 
tubular Bafe is furrounded as in the others, with 
a white filky Down rifing from the Seed. 
Thefe are the two Kinds of Flofcules which 
compofe the Doronicum Flower, 
ones of the Difk we fee there are the Male and 
Female Parts, the Filaments with their Buttons 
and the Style; in the Rays which are called ligu- 
lated Flowers, there are only the Female Parts, 
the Style with its double Head. The tubular 
are therefore called Hermaphrodite F lowers, and 
the ligulated Female : this is the great Diftinéction; 
and this is in a manner univerfal throughout the 
Syngenefious Clafs, 
The Parts are very confpicuous in this, we 
therefore have felected it for the Explanation; 
| and as the Plant is now flowering, we requeft . 
the Student to lay a Flower of it befaie him as 
he reads, to compare the Defcriptions of the 
Parts with the Parts themfelves; and by this 
Means not only to confirm thefe Obfervations, 
but imprint the whole Doétrine in his Memory. 
For. this Purpofe let him fele&t a Flower that 
is juft open’d; one in which only a fingle Circle 
or few more id the tubular Flowers are open’d, 
and that but newly; for it is in fuch a Flower, 
_ | and fuch only, the Parts are diftinétly to be 
feen. 
Tis sdiinailé faid that thefe Forms in the 
é Ff . Flowers 
In the tubular. 
