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beft underftood. When the pupil has pro* 
vided himfelf with an artichoke (cy'nara fco« 
lymus), he will find the florets of which it 
confifts all of them to contain both ftamens 
and piftils : this circumftance refers it to the 
firft order. The firft divifion of that order 
eomprifes that fpecies of corol termed, by 
I^inneus, ligulate, or tongued. The artichoke 
cannot have a place among the flowers affem- 
bled under this character, the corols all being 
tubular. The next divifion is marked by the 
flowers being headed, the mode of inflorefcence 
which is found in the plant under examina- 
tion. In this divifion are arranged ten genera, 
The different characters of the firft five by no 
means agree with the artichoke ; but the ob- 
vious marks of the " calyx ragged, with fcales 
channelled, thorny," refers it immediately to 
the genus Cy'nara ; and on examining the 
more difTufe defcription at No. 938, there 
can no longer remain a doubt that it is of 
that family : the beautiful pappus which 
crowns the feeds, and the fize of the recep- 
tacle, which is the part we eat, are objecls 
well worthy of obfervation. In dandelion the 
florets are all furnifhed with ftamens and 
piftils^ and of the ligulate form. In the 
numerous 
