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bend down, and diftin&ly fhews their want 
of union : the number of ftamens fo united 
is five ; they form a ring round the piftil, which 
rifes in the midft of them, and feems confeious 
of the homage fhe is receiving. This clafs con- 
fifts of what are called the compound flowers, 
and is certainly a natural one, if we except a 
few genera which are contained in the laft 
order, and which afc placed in this clafs from 
the fmgle circumftance of having their anthers 
united in a cylinder ; one of thefe genera is 
the viola, under which the violet and panne 
are ranked: this muft be allowed to be a 
fault in the fyflem ; but at prefent it is our 
bufinefs to confider only the compound flowers: 
Li uncus makes the elience of a compound 
flower to confift in the union of it's anthers 
into a cylindric form, one feed being placed 
on the receptacle beneath each floret. A com- 
pound flower is fo called from being compofed 
of many fmall flowers or florets, which arc 
fixed on a common receptacle, and enclofed by 
a common calyx. Thefe florets vary greatly 
in their contents, the ftamens and piftils s 
and alfo in the form of their corols, which 
in fome florets is tubular, in others flat, which 
is called tongued. In the fame flower fome- 
times 
