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NATURAL HISTORY. 
Characters of the Flosculose Flower. 
CALYX. — This common calyx is a perianthium, which contains 
the florets and the receptacle. It is either simple, augmented, or 
imbricated. It contracts when the flowers are fallen, but expands 
and turns back when the seeds are ripe. 
RECEPTACLE. The common receptacle of the fructification 
receives many sessile florets on its disk, which is either concave, 
plain, convex, pyramidal, or globose. The surface of the disk is 
either naked, without any other inequality than that of being lightly 
dotted: villose, covered with upright hairs ; or paleaceous, covered 
with palem, chaffs, or straws, that are linear, subulate, compressed, 
and erect, and serve to part the florets. 
Characters of the Florets. 
CALYX. — A small perianthium, often quinquepartite, seated on 
the germen, persisting, and becoming the crown of the seed. 
COROLLA. — Monopetalous with a long and very narrow tube. 
It is seated on the germen, and is either tubulate, with the limb 
campanulate and quinquefid, and the lacinise spreading and turning 
back ; ligulate, with the limb linear, plane, turned outwards, and 
tire top w r hole ; tridentate, or quinquedentate ; or wanting, having 
no limb, and often no tube. 
STAMINA. — The filaments five, capillary, very short, inserted 
in the neck of the corollulce. The autherce five, linear erect ; and 
by the union of their sides forming a cylinder, that is tubulate, 
quinquedentate, and of the length of the limb. 
PISTILLUM. — The germen oblong under the receptacle of the 
flower ; the style filiform, erect, of the length of the stamina, and 
perforating the cylinder of the antherae ; the stigma bipartite, the 
lac ini ;e revolute and spreading asunder. 
PER 1 C ARP 1 U M . - — No true one, though in some there is a 
coriaceous crust. 
SEED. — A single one, oblong, often tetragonous, but commonly 
narrower at the base. It is either crowned, or with the crown 
wanting. The crown is of two kinds, either a pappius, or perian- 
thium ; if a pappus, it is cither sessile, or placed on a stipes ; and 
consists of many radii, that are placed in a round, and are either 
simple, radiate, or ramose ; when the crown is a perianthium, it is 
sucn as is described above under that head. 
Ordeb I. POLYGAMIA 2EQUALIS, comprehending such 
plants ns have compound flowers, of which the florets are all 
hermaphrodite. This order contains forty-two genera, distinguished 
into, 1 . Such as have ligulate compound flowers, of which there are 
nineteen, viz. Goat’s Beard, Viper Grass, Sowthistle, Lettuce, Gum 
Succory, Wild Lettuce, Dandelion, Hawkweed, Bastard Hawkweed, 
Downy Sowthistle, Nipple-wort, Candy Lion's Foot, Succory, or 
