COMMON 
DANDELION, 
TARAXACUM 
OFFICINALE. 
1 COMMON DAISY, 
Mbellis PERENNIIS. 
ThE DAISY FAMILY. (ORDEPxli,COMPOSIT/E.) 
CALYA consisting of a tube - which adheres to trie seed 
usually surmounted, with minute hairs which lengthen 
fruit c pappus), or with minute scales, or with a raised border. 
COROLLA of 5 PETALS, united into a tube & separating into 
rarely 4 , teeth ctubuLan,as in alt the florets of the thistleY the 
centre (dish) florets of the daisy; or strap- shaped c tig ulatej, unit- 
ed at the base A spreading into a flat, slightly toothed limb, as 
In all the florets of the dandelion A the outer ( ray) florets of 
laisy; inserted above the seedcase(epigynous). 
STAMENS a rarely 4, with the anthers united round the 
J style ( syngenesious), the f i laments free, inserted on thecoroda- 
tubecepipetalous), sometimes absent. 
ST] L of 2 united CARPELS forming at the base a seedcase, 
A Lengthening into a2-branched style, on the inner surface 
of which branches are the stigmas. 
PRUIT an achene,a small dry r seeded fruit, which decays to 
free t he seed ( i ndehi scent j, crow ned w i th the hairs ( pappus) or 
scales, or bonder of the calyx, rarely nahed. 
FLOWERS small, stalhtess,regular, crowded together in a dense 
mass or head on the top of the elongated & enlarged flower- 
stalh (the receptacle), 6 surrounded by i or more rows of 
jfl bracts c the invotucrei, which LgdK Like sepals. Each of these 
m heads of flowers is popularly, but erroneously, called a flower. 
' LEAVES various, generally alternate and without stipules. 
DIST IN6U1SPIED PY the flowers being massed together in 
heads surrounded by sepalTike bracts by 
the united anthers of the stamens & by the 
f mi t bei ng an achene. 
Parts of the Dandelion. 
whole flower 
corolla 
calyx 
stamens 
pi slim* fruit 1 
caiyx 
W 
corolla’ 
\ 
Outer flower 
of the 
CommonDaisy P l5Cjl 
4 
Inner cal y x 
flower m 
of the stamens 
Daisy 
corolla 
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Distil 
fruit 
