The vegetable SYSTEM. 
7 ’f[K great and elVcntlal didlndlon is not in the body of the Floret but 
In the Chives. Thefe in all the Plants of the firll feries, whether radi- 
ate, naked, or ligulated, unite together at their ftdes, and form a regular 
tube, as at fig, 4. PI. 14.. before mentioned ; whereas in the adbeiates they 
hand didiiuft: ; tho’ they rife parallel with one another : they are alto- 
gether loofe at their points, and are free of each other In every other part ; 
being only held together in a columnar or tubular form, refembling that 
wherein the others grow, by a membrane which furrounds them at the 
bottom ; as reprefented at fig, 5. in the annexed plate, i. 
This will be bed; underdood, in a general way, by comparing the 
above cited figures of the two clafiical plates : and it is the more necef- 
1 ary to be dillindtly known, becaufe the abfolute feparation of the Capi- 
tate or Aflbciate from the Radiate, naked, and ligulate Plants, depends upon 
it ; and former authors, even the mod exaA of them, have fuppofed 
the Chives in thefe Plants alfo to cohere, the Adbeiates have therefore 
been ranged with thofe other Genera, in one clafs ; and inexplicable dif- 
ficulties have followed. 
As the larged Flowers among the afibciate kind fhew the parts mod 
didindt, I have chofen for explaining the general drudture, thofe of the 
Chardoon the feveral views and fedions of which, are the fubjeds of the 
eight fird figures of the annexed plate. 
A compleat Floret of the Chardoon growing to the feed, and furnidi- 
ed with its dyle as well as filaments, is reprefented at plate i. fig. x. 
a is the Seed, from the fummit of which the Floret rifes : b is the down 
of that feed, naturally covering the tubular Bafe of the Floret : c is the 
upper part of the bafe of the Floret : d is the fwelling body of the Flo- 
ret in which are contained the Chives, growing on their fhort threads : 
e are the five fegmentsof the Floret : f dxews the five Chives : and g the 
long dyle of the Floret, which they furround. 
At fig. 2. is reprefented the Floret alone, feparated from the feed 
and its down without, and cleared of the Chives and dyle from within. 
At fig 3. is given a Floret cut open to fihew the origin and difpo- 
fition of the Chives and their threads. The dyle is removed in this and 
the fucceeding figures except 6. as it would didurb the view. Here a is 
the tubular bafe of the Floret ; b its fwelling body, within which are 
diewn the five didinft Chives c, and their fupporting threads d \ e e are 
tlie fegments of the Floret. 
At fig. 4. is reprefented the body of the Floret, dlfmcumbered of its 
tubular bale ; cut open, and a little enlarged ; as it would appear if 
viewed 
