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AGGREGATE FLOWERS. 



thium, Juglans, Ptelea, Ulmus, Comarum, Amygdalus, and 

 Mirabilis ; ... a capsule externally, as in Dillenia, Clusia, 

 Nymphjea, Cappatus, Breynia, Morisonia, Stratiotes, Cycla- 

 men, and Strychnus ;...a hollow berry, as in Staphyuea, Car- 

 diospermum, and Capsicum ;.. .a conceptacle, as in Acr;EA;...a 

 legumen, as in Hymen.?ea, Cassia, Inga, and Ceratonia ;...or a 

 strobilus. as in Annona and Juniperus. 



The berry does not naturally burst, being soft, and the dis- 

 persion of the seeds being designed to be by means of animals. 



The berries in the Cape Adonis are evidently aggregate, many 

 united in one. 



CHAP. XIX. 



OF AGGREGATE FLOWERS. 



COMPLETE flowers are either simple or aggregate. Simple 

 flowers differ from aggregate in this, that they have not any part 

 of fructification common to many flowers, as is the case with ag- 

 gregate. Flowers are called aggregate when many flosculi, flo- 

 rets, are by the mediation of some part of the fructification com- 

 mon to them all, so united, that no one of them could be taken 

 out without destroying the form of the whole, of which it was 

 a part. The common part in aggregate flowers is either the re- 

 ceptacle or the calyx. A partial flower of the aggregate one is- 

 called flosculus, a floret. Aggregate flowers are primarily divi- 

 sible into seven kinds, viz. 1 . The aggregate, properly so called. 

 2. The compound. 3. The umbellate. 4. The cymose. 5. The 

 amentaceous. 6. The glumose. 7. The spadiceous : all which we 

 shall explain in their turn. 



1 . An Aggregate flower, properly so called, has a recepta- 

 cle that is dilate, extended in breadth, the florets standing on 



